Kathie Lee: At home on TODAY
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:45 PM by Jen Brown
From Kathie Lee Gifford, TODAY host
Hoda and I started our third week together today and it’s amazing how natural it feels already. I really credit the crew for welcoming me so beautifully and helping me feel so much at home. And Hoda, of course.
I’m trying to learn to pace myself again, knowing that I need to conserve whatever energy I’ve got for our 10 o’clock hour. The old gray—GREY—mare just ain’t what she used to be!
Congrats to my friend, Steven Paletta, for winning
Oprah’s Big Give. If only every one of us could embrace the concept!
I so enjoyed my weekend. It’s funny how you learn to appreciate a weekend when you work Monday to Friday! Spring is bursting everywhere you look and even though I could sleep in I can’t stand missing a minute of it. Each blossom is like a miracle.
I was surprised how moved I was watching the coverage of the Pope throughout the week. He has a face that seems to radiate God’s peace and peace is something we could all use more of. I’m surprised how much coverage there was of his visit. Every channel! That beats O.J. any day.
We finally finished the demo CD of the score for
Key Pin It Real, the new junior high school musical I’m writing with my dear friend, David Friedman. We have our first reading of it this Friday in Tampa and I couldn’t be more of a pig in mud. There’s also a first reading of my first preschool production,
Party Animals, on Saturday. The people at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center have such passion for theater and the power it has to inspire and move us.
The best part of the weekend was having dinner with Regis and Joy on Friday night. So great to just pick up where we left off a couple of weeks ago. He could not have been more encouraging and complimentary. His new game show, Password, begins this June on CBS and he seemed excited about it. Joy looks younger every time I see her, and she can’t wait to see her new grandson again.
Life’s good…
