david, our on-site event manager at park lane villa, just sent me this forgotten photo from a p.r. shoot that my partner, joan, and i did last year. after taking a hundred shots of she and i looking enthused with our platter of food, i decided it would be nice to capture us also looking bored and melancholy. in reality, we're rarely bored and only occasionally melancholy. mostly, we're pretty happy and jokie. joan founded marigold eleven years ago and worked like crazy to grow the thing with a rotating cast of chefs in the kitchen. when we met, it was some version of love at first sight and here we are five years later, still working like crazy, but having just been voted #1 caterer in cleveland and bagging top three rankings and a couple of weatherhead 100 awards for being one of the fastest growing companies in northeast ohio over the last couple of years. i'm immensely proud of what we've done and built together here at marigold and can't wait to see where the future will take us. that said, this entry is more of a love letter to joan, my business partner, true friend and confidant, #1 fan, and, no matter what girl i'm dating, my official lifelong 'other woman'. thanks for making me part of your life, rosenthal.
