Ponch and I met online in 1998. I stumbled across her webpage, read her poetry, and fell in love with her. I wrote her a really stupid email and surprisingly, she wrote back. She's sweet that way. I've read about a lot of Internet romances through my surfs on the world wide web and one thing I see over and over again is people's need to apologize for this. "We met on the web....who'da thunk we'd still be together!" and "You might think we were desperate for love...." But I'm not going to apologize (even if it is amazing that we're still together and both of us were actively looking for love wherever it might bloom). One of the webpages I remember seeing when I first got on line had a quote on the main page that read, "In the 80's we met our partners in bars. In the 90's we meet them on the Internet. Does it matter where you met the person who makes you happy?" Well, I guess it would if you met that person in prison on the chain gang or at a Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting....well, I guess even then it wouldn't matter. Love is its own reward, its own beginning and end, and the path that gets you there is merely the means to that end....like life, like happiness....like anything worthwhile. (I must warn you now....I do love to italicize).

She also loves to ramble sometimes *grin* ... As she said, we met online. I was working a project that involved travel and long hours. After a 14 hr day, I went back to the hotel room and checked my email. Her letter was waiting for me. She told me how much she loved my poems, that she was single, and that she was new to the Internet. She said she was stupid. Then she said she was confused. "Stupid and confused, not a good combination." I laughed so hard I almost fell off the side of the bed. It was that one line that sparked my interest. So I had to write back. I had no idea that she would continue to write...until she came to visit...and then packed her bags and moved in with me. It seems like it all happened so fast. Well, it did happen fast. But when you've been waiting all your life for the perfect one and she wants it all NOW, you don't say no. Or at least I didn't. And I've found throughout the years that we've been together that she definitely isn't stupid, although she does get confused from time to time. When we first met, she thought I was *the* Sappho. My chat handle is Sappho, along with her being newly out, caused her to mix up the two. She read my poems, thought they were written by the Sappho she had heard so much about (who doesn't have a complete poem in existence anymore [sadly] and has been dead for quite a few years), and thought I was that person. We cleared that up before she visited. *muttering - no wonder she wrote back, she thought I was famous* Smart, yet confused... a winning combination. [Ponch]

Definitely Yin/Yang goin' on in this house. Ponch is pretty butch on the outside and very femme on the inside. I am very femme on the outside and very butch on the inside. I have to kill the spiders, anyway, so that makes me thus. I'm also in total control of her *ducking* and she does what I tell her to *dodging shoes.* To look at us from the outside the savvy observer (read: family) might immediately think, "Butch-femme." But strangely, the label doesn't stick. There is too much give and take going on with her femme personality and my butch traits, and a definite lean of hers towards the curiosity of all things feminine. Don't tell her I told you this, but, *whispering,* I painted her toenails last week. I've caught her admiring the little digits several times since then.

Okay...so I let her paint my tootsies. Big deal. There's a first time for everything. And, no, she didn't paint them blood red like hers. She wanted to put GOLD on my toenails. So I let her. It looks really strange and every time I look at my feet, I feel like I have the feet of Hermes. Sometimes I even see the shadow of wings near my heels. I think she did it just so I would move a little faster to fetch things for her. No matter - I got a foot massage out of the deal, so it was worth it. *knowing wink* [Ponch]

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