(Photo: Jake Chessum)

Barbara Smilie
Housewife, San Rafael, California
Shot outside the Today show, Rockefeller Plaza

Do you watch the Today show every single day?
I do. And I’ve been doing it since I was a teenager.

Are you sad that Katie left?
I am. I always appreciated that she is so upbeat, but I look forward to a new Today program because changes do occur in life, and they are almost always for the better.

What have you been up to?
Oh gosh, everything. If you can imagine, my teenage sons had never been here, and oh my gosh, do they love it. We got tickets to Spamalot and had so much fun that we went to The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and loved that, too. We’ve had New York pizza, and we took Gray Line tours everywhere in the rain with garbage bags over us. So much fun!