My dear wife Karen and I kept the Sesuit Harbor Cafe in our hip pocket, an ace in the hole if you will on the Traditions List for our pre-tourist rush June week in the Happy Cottage.
The setting on the Bay screams Cape Cod.
Boats and beach and dunes and birds and sun.
And outdoor picnic table to savor the lobster or fish or anything you wish from their written in chalk on a board menu.
This is where we wanted to take BloggyVille’s best group leader in psychotherapy, Boston’s own Ann Koplow. Yes, the writer of The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally drove to visit we and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle Saturday, our next-to-last day in her home state, and so I thought this would be a great place for us to eat lunch.
Ann pulled into the driveway at the dot of noon, her iPhone app Waze pulling through perfectly.
Ellie B was enthusiastic in her greeting after the humans all shared hugs for this first face-to-face encounter after two years of faithful daily commenting on each other’s blogs, but heeded in my order not to jump on Ann because she just had serious surgery. Ann smiled because she knows how much I tend to give orders.
We fell into easy conversation about our blogs, about our lives, about this, that and everything. I thought to ask at last if she liked seafood, since we were going to eat at a marina cafe and all. Sure thing.
Ann rode shotgun as I drove. She got a kick out of Karen helping me affix my bib so I could attack the cracking and eating of my lobster.
We laughed as the two blogger in our party of three jumped up and took picture of our surrounding with our phones.
You will see her shots by clicking the link above. Her eye is always toward wordplay and intriguing connection.
We stopped at an intown dessert shop on the way back to the Happy Cottage, good for fuel for another hour’s worth of conversation in the backyard.
I was sad when Ann said it was time for her to drive back to Boston. First we needed official photos of each other to top these simultaneous posts, something worthy of us both netting our first Freshly Pressed post. That was worth a good chuckle. Ironic, anyway.
So there’s the woman with the special heart, our Ann who shies from putting the focus on her full facial image but always gives her all in spirit and knowledge and humor, an amazing 895 days in a row as of this morning’ post.
I had no worries that we’d get along in real life. Then came the bonus day in the Happy Cottage. I like Ann Koplow even better in person than I do in BloggyVille.
Have you read Ann Koplow’s blog yet? What’s your favorite aspect of The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally? Who have you met in real life from BloggyVille, and how did it go?
Other bloggers are real people? Now way!
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Way!
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Hard to believe there’s a third dimension to us, isn’t it, Scott? 🙂
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That’s so cool that you got to meet in person! 🙂
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Like we will, but not soon enough, Rachel. ❤
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how great that you had the chance to meet up in person. i love her blog too and see how the 4 of you, hit it off right away. i’ve met a couple of bloggers and have stayed friends in real life as well as blog life )
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I love your blog, too!!!!
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The way that you and I go about our commenting, Beth, Ann assumed that we have met in real life! I had to think hard and tell her, no, it just seems that way. 🙂 ❤
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Very cool photos Mark. It is so neat that you got to meet Anne face to face. Great post!
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Thanks, Paul. I know her as long as I know you! We must come up to Ottawa, I think. 🙂
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Looks like a lot of fun was had by all! 🙂 🙂
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A glimpse of things to come, Mrs. B. 🙂
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Still have not met a few Ohio and bordering states bloggers, Mark. I was thrilled to see Ann’s post where you got together, Mark! So glad Ellie B. Is such a good listener and did not attempt to jump on Ann. I worry about how she recuperates. Serious stuff, heart pacemaker surgery. I wrote a comment which included you and Karen. Which you may be monitoring her post alread to see your combined friends commenting.
The meal and warmth shown in this post and hers really emphasizes how close people can get through blogging, Mark 🙂
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I just wanted to simultaneously respond to your kind concern, Robin. No need to worry — I am recuperating and healing very well from my May 4 surgery. Last week, my doctor told me I can be at my normal activity level (which Mark described as 1000 miles per hour, if my memory is correct). ❤
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It is the truth, Robin. When we meet, it is going to be terrific! ❤
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Nice! I have met a lot of people from the interwebz, but I’ve only met two bloggers. They were fantastic, of course! It would be a dream to travel all around meeting all of my cyber friends. Can you imagine? *daydreams* lol
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I want to host a big BloggyWorld party after I hit the MeggaMillions/PowerBall, Joey. You’re on my invite list. You root for my numbers, and I’ll root for yours?
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YES! Well, I’d hafta play to win…lol
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Wow Mark and Karen that is so special!!! Glad you met up and had a wonderful time.
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See, Cheryl, it CAN happen. 🙂 Terp and Gatorette in the future.
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That was a totally cool post that both of you did at the same time. I loved it! 🙂
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Thanks, Colleen. It’s going to be great when the four of us meet! 🙂 ❤
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These posts (your’s and Ann’s) makes me very happy. There’s a lot of joy in knowing people meet, talk, and share the world. 🙂
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Yes, there is joy here, MBC, and now we are packing for the trip home. I miss the Little Bitty. 🙂
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It’s worth missing MBM. 🙂
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I’m home answering a whole lot of back comments on Monday morning in my recliner and, well, yes it is, MBC.
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Don’t forget your email! I think I sent one yesterday or late the night before.
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OK. I won’t forget you, MBC. Oy. I AM SO BEHIND.
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It would seem the longer we do this blogging thing the easier it would get. I find myself having a longer list to respond to every day of blogs to read and comments to get to. Even without a vacation thrown in!!!! I feel this MBM!
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I sent you a reply email last night BTW. Digging out! Feels so good!!
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Ah…..the catch up! (Until you wake up in the morning again!) 😉
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I’m just tickled pink that you all met in person Mark. I love your photo of Ann, her face, the part that is seen, especially her eyes are one big smile just like her beautiful heart. ❤
Diana xo
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You say it so well, Diana. I’ll let it stand right there, my beautiful friend. ❤ Imagine when we all get together … ❤
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😀 !
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Such a cool encounter. The Sesuit Harbor / Cold Storage Beach area of Dennis is entirely my favorite neck of the woods; my family still has a house there near Scargo Tower. Glad you guys had a chance to break bread together–or err break shell? Enjoy the summer, and say hi to the Cape for me.
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Will do, Jeff. You picked a great area to have a place. Thanks for stopping by to say hello to the Cape. 🙂
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Jeff! Are you going to simultaneously comment on MY POST?!?!?!
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Outstanding. Meeting blogging friends is a real high. Looks a wonderful time together. Thanks for sharing the photos too. 🙂
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We had a big time, Tess. We like each other in real life!
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So wonderful to have met yet another blogger on your travels Mark!
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Yes, Marissa. A wonderful visit it was. 🙂
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I admire your ability to be so consistent. Now I shall follow BOTH of you. Keep it up! 🙂
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Glad to have you here, “ME.” I shall follow your worthy project in turn, new friend.
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I like you even better in person, too, Mark. I can’t decide whose post I like better today.
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I have to go read yours, Ann, so I can try to decide for myself. 🙂
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Go for it, Mark!
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Your post is fantastic, Ann. Your photo display is a scrapbook of our our day together. Thank you so much, my friend.
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Back at you, friend Mark.
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I found you through Ann’s blog! Looks like a great day- and finally a photo of Ann!! How wonderful to finally meet the person behind the blog- it must have been like connecting with an old friend as we all come to know one another so well through blogging
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When Ann gave me permission to take and publish this photo, I was floored, Lisa. I feel like it’s a big reveal! 🙂
When she got out of her car and started talking, I knew right away that it was the Ann I’ve read two years. Same person. Old friend, indeed. What a wonderful discovery that was. We need a big BloggyVille party so we all can get this feeling simultaneously.
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It was a big reveal- exactly how I felt when seeing her!! Bloggyville party sounds great 🙂
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Mark, you had some nice weather over there! So glad to see Ann! How great you all got together!
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This visit was two years in the making, Maria. We appreciated every second of it. And yes, the weather cooperated. 🙂
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Very cool, both of you!
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Thanks, Jim. We are lucky seeing each other in Syracuse as often as we do, my friend. I don’t take that for granted. 🙂
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You’re so lucky you got to meet your blogger friend, PM!
It looks like you guys had a blast. 😀
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We had a wonderful day, Shooby Doo! It doesn’t happen too often. The States are large, and the bloggers are spread far apart. 😦
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Yeah! I don’t know whether it happens here, in India! But I have a list of people I’m dying to meet in person!
Is it weird? Meeting someone with whom you’ve only communicated through an electronic media?
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It wasn’t weird, Shooby Doo. It was beautiful. ❤
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Oh! That’s wonderful!
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See what’s going to happen when you come over to the U.S., Shooby Do? 🙂
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Hahah, yes, now I’m more eager to visit the states! 😀
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