Well I figured I would tell you all about one of the most wonderful things that has happened to me lately.

For my birthday my husband bought me a return trip ticket to New York to go and visit my bestest friend. I had never met her before this face to face.

Donna and I met online about 4 years ago and formed a fast and bonding friendship immediately. As time passed and we talked on the telephone and wrote regular mail letters and met every single night at 11 online for a game of gin or crib or scrabble --our friendship grew and deepened.

Over time we shared laughter and tears. We shared the past and the present and our dreams for the future. I now think of Donna as not only my best friend but my sister by choice.

 Donna took over handling the building, designing and maintaining my web site and still does all of it for me. I just send her what I want up and she does all the designing. She helped me follow my vision of bringing hearts together by helping me to form our web ring "Misker's Den-izens".

Did I hold my breathe as I took that flight to finally meet her face to face? was I afraid she may not be the sweet, honest, compassionate person she seemed to be?  The answer is NO --I somehow knew in my heart that she was everything I had come to know over the years. I was right because she is the same wonderful person that I knew she was inside my heart.

The time went to fast for sure. We did not do anything extravagant and we did not spend a fortune. We just enjoyed being together and getting to know each other even better although there seemed not to be much to get to know since we had already shared so much over the 4 years since we met.

We relaxed and I watched while she made bows and roses out of ribbons and silks. We walked her doggie Dillon. We watched her kitty Chloe chase imaginary things around the living room. We did a little shopping and  I caught up on some much needed rest and relaxation. She took great joy in beating my pants off in scrabble. Goodness how was I supposed to win when I did not have it online in Mplayer or the Zone !!  How was I supposed to win with a regular scrabble board. humpfff  She knew darn well she had me!!

I was sad to leave her as she was to see me go. Our bond was strengthened even deeper and we both knew that we definitely have a friend for eternity in each other. I am looking forward already to the next time we meet face to face.

Misker 
June 21-2000

I had to add to this reflection, so please excuse my intrusion into Misker's site :)

Sometimes in life a wonderful and rare thing happens, you meet someone and feel as if you've known them forever.  This is how I felt when Misker and I first met online almost 4 years ago.  Over the years our friendship has blossomed, strengthened and grown...so when we actually met in person a few weeks ago, there was no awkwardness at all.  We just hugged each other hello and started chatting and laughing the same as we do online and on the phone.  It felt that comfortable and easy. 

I feel blessed that we had this opportunity to meet and I cherish our friendship more each day and I too am looking forward to seeing my dear 'sister' in person once again...of course I'll bring the Scrabble board along. :)

Donna