One of the things Laura was hugely excited about when she started her brant was the idea that she could plug people and places and things that she really likes. Which is why this post about the interview she did with the nationally syndicated radio show “The Good Stuff” is going to be so fun to write.

You see, Laura’s sister-in-law (Laura’s husband’s brother’s wife) Colleen Dealy is one of the hosts of “The Good Stuff” which, as I may have just mentioned, is now nationally syndicated on the Lifestyle Talk Radio Network. The other host of the show is Colleen’s friend Taylor Purdy, and together they make a great team. Back before the show went national, when Colleen first had the idea for the show and when they first started taping the one-hour show once a week in a local Greenwich, Connecticut radio studio, Laura would sometimes agree to be on the show — either in studio or by phone — when they were desperate for a guest. Sometimes she would even listen to the show from her computer (don’t ask her how she did it, because at a certain point she couldn’t anymore and she didn’t know why she couldn’t because she’d never quite figured out how why she could) and call in with a question to make it seem like someone was out there, all the way in Boston, listening and engaged enough to call in with a question or a comment.

Laura always felt like she was saving the day when she did these enormous acts of kindness — helping these poor radio hosts, with no guests and no listeners, out of the goodness of her heart. But the real reason she did it was because Colleen is one of Laura’s favorite people in the whole world and someone Laura can never do enough for because Colleen has helped her out (let her stay over in Greenwich and save $$ on hotels) and saved her (watched Benji while Laura went into the city for meetings or lunches or anything else that had to do with the publication of her new book) a gazillion times. This is why Colleen’s name is on the dedication page of Piece of Work. (Not that that can even begin to pay Colleen back for all the enormous favors she’s done for Laura. But it’s a start.) Of course now Laura can barely get booked on the show and has to have her publicist call and beg for an interview. (OK, that’s a lie, but you know what she means.)

What she means is that now the show is an actual show, two hours long and five days a week, part of an actual radio network, and rapidly gaining affiliates. Laura desperately wishes she could upload the fantabulous photo of her fantabulous sister-in-law Colleen and her friend Taylor but she thinks she shouldn’t bother trying and instead should just post the links to the show and be done with it. After all, “The Good Stuff” is getting plenty of attention without Laura plastering Colleen and Taylor’s blond hair all over her brant.

(Note:  this photo was finally uploaded on 12/31/06.)