Work/Life Balance

In September of 2005 I hired a woman to work as my administrative assistant in Duncan BC (on Vancouver Island). In October that year, she and her mother travelled to Vanderhoof BC (northern BC) for a visit and proceeded to tell old family friends about the job, about me and about the organization. In November of 2005 I met a man on Plenty of Fish. He lived in Richmond BC. I was unsure how to pronounce his name but knew that he was Dutch origin, as was my new admin. When I asked her about how to pronounce the name, she immediately wanted to know how I knew this man. I said I had met him online and was going to be meeting him in person soon. It turns out he was the son of the family friends she had just been visiting and she hadn't seen him in in 20 years. The coincidence is something that we still talk about today. Through him I also identified others that were family friends that I knew before we had met. When this lovely admin died prematurely, we attended her memorial service, he knowing half of her friends (those from Vanderhoof) and me knowing the other half (from Vancouver Island.)