pass and roll your neighbor and blog

Last night I received an email from an old squaredancing buddy, Kris, who has been maintaining a square dance blog for the past several years. She periodically googles for "square dance blog," and this time the results included several of my own entries, so she dropped me a nice line letting me know she'd found me again, and telling me that she'd missed me.

And that's the kind of thing that can make this Internet stuff seem worthwhile again, these times and ways of connecting and reconnecting that make me forget, at least briefly, all the weight-loss, penile-enlargement, viagra-pushing, printer-cartridge-promoting spam that the net also has enabled.