i made a new years resolution for 2011 to meet in person all 325 of my facebook friends. 325 friends, 365 days, 13 countries, close to 60,000 miles on planes, trains and automobiles.
i had 325 friends–from college, from around town, from playing online scrabble, people who like my grandfather’s science fiction writing, parents of my kids’ friends, and some people i just had no idea why. i wanted to meet them all and figure out if we were “just” facebook friends or something else.
at the end of the year, my house sold. my sons live in new york and ohio and neither of them really wanted me to move in with them. i had no place i had to be and i had spent a year being everywhere so i could choose.
this past month, i took an apartment.
for most of my adventures, i carried with me a plush doll of the nineteenth century adventurer and explorer william clark. he has his own facebook page and we are facebook friends. now he resides in the bat girl cave which is very close to where i used to live.
i could have gotten one of those prefab homes in nome that i saw, or moved into the mumbai holiday inn which is the swankest place i stayed. i could have opened a fruit stall in mexico city in the neighborhood i visited or i could rent one of those sweet apartments i saw in dortmund, germany. but no, i ended up back in winnetka and i didn’t have to click my heels three times to know there’s no place like it.
but of course i have facebook friends to see in other parts of the world. new friends on facebook. i just got back from kentucky and i think the next trip is ontario and from there new york.
thursday night i went to a party in winnetka. everybody said “welcome back!” and i think they meant it. i was not actually wearing these shoes, but i felt like i was!
arlynnpresser 
October 20th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Welcome back indeed though it seems you fortunately for all of us didn’t really leave.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:19 PM, arlynnpresser
October 21st, 2012 at 12:04 am
I’m trying to find “the red shoes” for a play I’m producing (also writing and directing). Similar silver ones are all the rage for girls at my high school.
October 21st, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Could you teach me how to get my WordPress be sent to a email 🙂
October 21st, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Dear Arlynn
I am so proud to have you in that life time The non-resistances and we meet in a group of panic attack nuts so You still here facing new change every time 🙂 soon I will be kissing your feet and we laugh lauder together 🙂
Kind Regards Monica Nobrega Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:18:50 +0000 To: monicanobrega@live.co.uk
October 23rd, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Ontario the Canadian province, or Ontario the American city? Shout out from Ontario, Canada! 🙂
October 24th, 2012 at 9:34 pm
i’ll be in toronto soon! will i see you sound hippy?
October 25th, 2012 at 12:29 am
Arlynn, it would be very cool to meet you in person but as it happens I recently moved from Toronto to the St. Catharines area. Happy travels, eh? 😉
November 10th, 2012 at 6:59 am
Hi there,
I’m still amazed by all the places you’ve been and how well you’re doing! 🙂
If it were as easy as clicking those red shoes, I’d go outside all the time… potential rapists/muggers/awful situation of doom? No worries! Click three times and get teleported home! 🙂
I love it, thanks for sharing.
BTW!:
I am learning yet again that there are so many labels out there for physical and medical conditions…that it’s hard to draw the line…
I found this about female Aspergers:
http://aspergersgirls.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/aspergers-traits-women-females-girls/
Which is strange, as according to this, many people with agorophobia, anxiety and a creative disposition could tick off many of the traits!
I don’t think either of us have this, but curious what parts you could relate to…as I think it says alot about labels and makes you wonder what the point of labels is anyway…