The last time I saw Halsted Bernard
Probably at a Denny’s in Arlington Heights at a ddial get-together.
Probably at a Denny’s in Arlington Heights at a ddial get-together.
I met him ages ago at a book signing in Birmingham, Alabama. I stopped reading the Wheel of Time series shortly after that, but not because I met him.
Not only does she understand and craft language beautifully, she’s got some serious script-fu to boot!
A very long time ago, when I enrolled at Edinboro University of PA, I had a peculiar roomate who happened to be friends with Halsted. So, I met Halsted in January of 1993, as I was unpacking my stuff in my new dorm room there.
Subsequently, I ended up spending time with Halsted by default of her wanting to hang out with my roomate.
By the beginning of that following fall semester—my former roomate was to be Halsted’s roomate, but she’d finally lost her damned mind, and flaked and fled.
Once Halsted and I ended up spending some time with one another, as we both ended up roomate-less, we discovered we were fond of one another, and seemed to intuitively know the other better.
We became fast and close friends.
I adore, respect, admire and love her more than any other person I call a friend in this life and she is a part of my chosen family.
She lives terribly far away from me, but I love her even more now than when we only lived down the hall from one another.
I’m so lucky to have her in my life… for so many reasons.
Halsted is a phenomenal blogger who is the definition of cool. I have “known” her online for years now and I can only hope that one day I am lucky enough to meet her.
I took one of his writing workshops at Book Passage a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it, and he said he liked my writing, so yay!
I met Halsted back when she went by a different name in a different time. Back when a fast modem was 9600 or 14.4k baud. I knew her as Saranrapture and Joey on a DDial (Thats the predecesor to IM and the internet for all you young kids out there).called Point Zero and in college. She was a god friend I let slip away, and wish I could met again someday.
He’s a brilliant poet, and wields the effortless humor of the truly intelligent. Plus: CHI-TOWN, BABY!
It was at this Flickr meet, see, but he doesn’t go to those anymore. :(
I miss you, Danny.
I don’t know, I suppose he’s got to be a really smart guy, and that Flock thing is neat (despite what I said about it after a glass and a half of red wine), and perhaps he even donates money to important charities, but what I really like about Andy is that he makes me laugh.