First, my mother helped a young British man come to the USA in the early 90s to attend a university in our town, we were his “sponsor” family of sorts. They met online before blogs, internet forums and the like, they met via a listserv. Anyway, 15 years later he is still here and a great, dear friend of our family. He is now my mother’s roommate!

I moved across the country last year for my husband’s job. Due to miscommunication the day I flew out here to move with my daughter, my husband was back in DC. A woman I knew on an online mom’s board picked us up from the airport, helped me get my rental car, settled into the hotel and had us over for dinner. We are great friends now, I see her weekly and our kids play often. I should add that I had “known” her on a private board for 3 years prior to the move, so it wasn’t like I was meeting her completely blind.

My closest friend in DC is a woman I met on a huge book forum 8 years ago. She replied to a post I made about sending out a hard to find, no longer published book, she sent me her addy, I realized she lived about 10 minutes from me. We emailed quite a bit and realized we were the same age, etc. and met. Our husbands are good friends and so are we. It was pure coincidence that we ever met at all. Funny enough, it got strange explaining to people how we met at gatherings so we finally just starting fibbing and saying we met in college, lol.

I met another woman on a different mom’s board and we finally met a few months after we moved. She is great, I love her to pieces, and our daughters are fast friends. Interestingly, it was on her blog that I found the link to your blog.

I have many other internet success stories, but I’ll stop. It is too bad that only the wacko stories are published in the media, the internet is a great place to meet friends. And in my experience, the women are like their online personas.

http://thepoint.breakpoint.org/2008/09/faces-of-godb-1.html

Oh, and I also met my hubbie online, so I did find him somewhat delightful when I finally met him

That’s a cool thing, when you think about it. Genuineness.

P.S. So what DID you wear?

I’ve only blogged a bit, but I know that a HUGE part of my life isn’t covered by it because I just haven’t figured out how best to talk about it, if at all. I guess it’s likely that this would make me seem a little different in real life?

I imagine that some people would seem less and less like their blog personalities the more you get to know them if there’s a lot of facade. But I imagine that there are also plenty of people who would seem more and more like their blogs the more you get to know them. There’s something about writing that can express the soul more readily for people who open up slowly in real life.

Big Mama’s been on my list for a while now–I don’t know if I’m more jealous that you got to meet her or that she got to meet you.