I see you, Sammy

I met Sara, Scott and their baby Sammy, for brunch this morning at Lupe's East LA Kitchen — a hole in the wall Mexican diner teetering on the edge of SoHo, with incredibly delicious food. I have not seen Scott and Sara in more than a year, the last time was right after Kenny and I came home from our trip to Spain and Romania in OCtober 2007. Fast forward ahead a year and a half and now Sammy is almost one, and a lot has happened in the past 18 months in both of our lives. So we had a leisurely brunch, catching up, interrupting each other to ask about one another's lives, and it was so wonderful to catch up with old friends and reconnect. The lovely part of it was that I felt like I had just seen them last week, not a year and a half ago; albeit now they have a baby. But, there was not any of that awkward small talk; it was a great afternoon with good conversation and some very lovely time spent at the park swinging Sammy on the bucket swings, watching him laugh.