I just have got to post my 2 cents that I had the most wonderful time with our Divine Ms. A, who is even more fabulous in person than in cyberspace! (thanks for the kind words too).
What an amazing woman! Sweet, kind, insightful, stunning, fun to be with... Made me want to go out to the west coast and kick someone's a##... and I don't mean hers... But he's probably kicking his own these days.
Plus, our Azure has excellent taste in shirts, LOL.
I won't wade into the friendship topic...because H2H said the only thing I've been able to come up with... that thinking about whether we want that... and why... is a reasonable place to be. I've found that I've got some pretty great friends and I'm not really in the market for those who would choose not to act like friends to me. We only have so much of ourselves to give, folks.