Immediate Impressions (written Saturday night, posted Tuesday night):

On the train, heading North to Milwaukee, post-BlogHer. I missed my original train, and this one is late, so I’m a little tired and frustrated. I wish I would have zipped out of the conference faster, wish I’d dragged all my crap along, wish I’d realized it was unrealistic to make the 5:08 and stayed for Elizabeth Edwards.

But really, no regrets about the conference. None. I met such interesting people, and connected with people I already knew and liked. I have SO MANY ideas now, for both blogs, and maybe for a 3rd blog.

I have to make some acknowledgments.

First, my Ladyblogs Posse –

  • Lizzy: She was as much fun and as nice and supportive as I thought when we met in NYC. I’m so glad we got to hang out more.
  • Lizarita: Adorable, funny as hell, nice too.
  • Isabel: Charming, made the best present (shrinky dink necklace with tiny rainbow of baby spoons, the LesbianFamily.org logo), ridiculously nice about my having dragged her to a session that wasn’t quite as interesting as I thought promised it would be, and not so very interesting. So pretty!
  • Stacy: Quieter than Isabel, but with a similar energy and blonde adorableness.
  • Carissa: More personality than you usually find in 3 people! She made the funniest craft gift, glasses to make it look like your eyes are already blacked out.
  • Molly: The person I left with the least clear sense of — I think she’d be fabulous in a less frenetic setting.
  • Bree: So sad that we didn’t get to connect more in real life. Bree is one of my favorite email/comment exchangers, mostly on the random minutia of life and impending motherhood.

Second, my fellow panelists –

  • Joy: Sharp, witty, brave, bold and awesome. I wish we lived in the same city and could hang out and have coffee.
  • Valencia: Calm, confident, serene and determined. I am contemplating ways that we might be able to continue to connect and help one another keep expanding out service to our communities.
  • Dory: Intelligent, sophisticated, warm, and on top of that, a friend of Anne’s and someone familiar with the very first site I launched! I’m afraid we might have been too domineering during the panel, though.

That’s the end of what I wrote Saturday night.

I don’t have the brainpower to even get into the amazing women I met and spoke with, or saw on panels, or to tell the stories of the weekend. I’m in activity-filled vacation mode here in Milwaukee. Today Noah even got to go be introduced by Grandpa on the floor of the State Assembly.