Hey Marianne! Gotta pen?

I have a friend named Marianne. She has her own website and her own book at www.mariannepowers.com. She has something else that I tend to need a lot of. Pens!

Of course now when she's around I don't bother looking in my own purse for a pen. I usually say "Hey Marianne! Do you have a pen?" and she always gets excited and responds "Of course I do!"

I'm supposed to "forget" the pens when I go places so that she gets some advertising. However, they usually end up at the bottom of my purse, used only once or twice. That's because the next time I see her, I repeat my ritual and get a new pen.

There are some folks in my life that I know I can count on to give me something I need--a smile, a hug, a happy thought, or even a pen.