For the Hearing Impaired

Melissa Baird reading from the February issue of Real Simple (her favorite magazine and also one of mine)

I was catching up on some magazine reading this evening and I came cross the above article. I read it, I loved it, and I instantly thought of my friend Jordan.

Jordan is known for his love of sleeping. He has been rudely awakened by some people we will loosely call his friends in a manner of ways, including by snow brought indoors. He is not inherently lazy and is very much fun to talk to and be around but he does love his sleep. I found this article and was filled with a deep desire to share it with him. I had found something that spoke to his love sleep.

Knowing that I could scan in the physical article itself and e-mail it to him when I'm at work tomorrow, I still wanted to share it with him immediately. I googled with hope. My hopes were dashed against the jagged rocks of despair when the article in question was not listed on Real Simple's website or anyone else that I could find on the vast Internets. But Eureka! There is a podcast online. Someone has read it out loud and recorded it for the benefit of the hearing or visually impaired in California. And while Jordan is not hearing impaired or located in California, I wanted to share and share immediately.

I listened to the article myself out of curiosity. After listening to Melissa Baird read the story for only a few sentences, I was floored. I was enthralled. I was rooted to my computer for the remainder of the 19-minute podcast. Her reading became my background music. Her voice is delightful. It reminds me of someone I know but I cannot divine the resemblance. No matter -- her voice is divine. And I am now on a mission to discover if she reads anything else. I was happy to listen to her read out the ingredients for a recipe and describe verbatim from the magazine how to cook a particular dish. Anyone who can read a recipe in such a way that I am enthralled deserves further research and certainly recognition on my little-read blog....

Surely she must read other things than Real Simple! I must find out!

To Be Continued....