with that any questions you have for ray orford kate please put it in the chat and we will get to that at the end of the event. welcome kate and i'm going to talk a little bit with. now. >> i will toss it back to kate. we are going to open with kate reading a selection from "already toast." >> thank you. thank you all so much for coming. i'm really excited to see the faces of people i love and new friends that i have not yet met and its wonder -- wonderful of all you to spend your saturday here so thank you so much for making the time. i have to put on my reading glasses and i hope the glare won't read too bad but i will take them off afterwards that i'm going to read a short section from the beginning of the book. it is about getting the initial diagnosis of my husband's lymphoma after a long time of seeking a diagnosis. it begins with a reference to a holiday party that we had that felt like the last normal party we did as a family and its possible a few of you might have been there. so i will read now. a few days after a big blowout 2014 holiday party we got a message on my health p