My best memories of Anissa…

If you don’t know Anissa, she’s a blogger who lives in the Atlanta area. She had a massive stroke on Tuesday and then another stroke at some point thereafter. Since then, lots and lots and lots of folks who hang out in her corner of the Internet have been rallying around her in various ways. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a story about it. Anissa is 35. She and her husband have three young children.

Today Anissa’s husband Peter wrote on one of Anissa’s blogs, telling us some of the details. I wrote a lengthy comment, which I’m sharing here, because it pretty much sums up my best memories of Anissa.

I’ve not been SAYING much online about this, but I’ve been PRAYING and thinking of you so much.

I may have run into Alli Worthington (who I’d met before) first, but Anissa is the first person I met at Blissdom this year. My memory is that she was a little nervous about the whole enterprise, because it was her first conference. Looking back, I can’t believe that OUR Anissa was nervous, but I think that was the case.

She asked me where I am from, and when I told her, “the Atlanta area,” she told me you were moving here soon. We ran into each other a few more times over the weekend, but didn’t talk much more. At some point during the weekend we started following each other on Twitter. I’ve been enjoying her Tweets ever since.

On Monday, she Tweeted about “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” I told her I loved that movie and she said, “I love it MOAR!!” Loved that.

Thank you for the post. It helped me to know more of the details, though you were, of course, under no obligation to tell us any.

Much love…

Rebecca

I’m praying she gets better. And soon.