Paths cross. A blog post finds a blog reader, and the writer finds the reader, and a friendship begins. Melissa is one of the first people I met out here in the land of blogs, and she has kindly become a real presence as well, finding me at talks or blogger conventions, stepping into the quiet chaos of my world.
This post, on her wonderfully eloquent The Betty and Boo Chronicles, touched me deeply. She called it, "I've Been Seeing Beth, In All the Most Surprising Places." It returned to me some of my past.