Blog Buddy

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"I love reading --"

"I love reading, but I love writing even more--"

"What do you write? Fiction? Non-fiction...?"

"I have a blog." (This is such a fun way to respond now that it's true. Before, I would have answered, "I like to write personal essays.")

"Is it an IBM [internal] blog?"

"It's not internal."

"I've got an IBM one."

"Really? Neat!" (I had been thinking that if our dinner conversation went as well as I anticipated it would, I'd tell my relatively new colleague about my blog, if we talked at all about our lives. I didn't bargain for her saying, "Me, too," and was unnerved for a moment, but then thought, even better.)

I just received e-mail from her, letting me know that she had come to see it...this, and giving me the URL for hers.

How modern that I know more about her thoughts and what matters to her from her blog than I knew previously from our couple of dinner conversations and business meetings.

That she had a blog of her own made me like her even better, and her writing made me like her still further.

How much does it count, one's knowing of another via a blog?