Janelle was running through Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in her Aldo heels, just about to miss her Southwest flight to San Jose for a conference. After being forced to sit in the middle seat (which she hates), she found herself between two young men. The man to her right filming takeoff with a GoPro, the other to her left not a moment shy of eighteen. When the young man asked Janelle if she had a boyfriend, the guy to her right busted into a belly laugh, which caught Janelle's attention. He introduced himself as "Mike," and he was a "camera operator on a show for the Oprah Winfrey Network". He admired Janelle's "Clifford the Big Red Dog" bookmark that her daughter made, and they sparked up a chat over cranberry vodkas for the duration of the flight. Mike gave Janelle his business card upon landing, "incase she ever made it to LA, maybe he could hook her up with some writing gigs," and the two parted ways. Later that night, they agreed to meet up for a drink in the airport the following day, as they both left San Jose in the same window of time. Janelle found Mike waiting in a NY Yankee hat, and she knew she was toast. After many flights to multiple destinations, phone calls and an out of state move...the rest is history (nine years later).