Follow unassuming trails to little gems

I love the internet. One minute you’re reading a Discworld fanfic (a well written one). The author includes a note about how she met Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs at one of the DW Cons, and she got pics. So I take a break from reading to check out her LiveJournal to see if the photos she spoke of are there, and instead find myself reading her accounts of her daughter being born with Hypotrophic Left Heart Syndrome and the years of surgeries, problems and successes (my favourite bit being when little Olivia calls herself Nein-Nein (No-No in German) because that’s what’s said to her as she toddles about!) Well worth a read – would be nice to find out how they’re doing now (last update Nov ’07). Then reading the comments there are comments there from another fanfic author who’s stories I read years ago who’s friends with this lady. Small world.