This week, I lost someone I loved very much, Allie Baker. She was a prominent Hemingway blogger and one of my oldest writing friends. I first met Allie Baker in the Boise Airport nearly 17 years ago. We were both coming home from a conference and started talking, quickly discovering our shared love of writing. Slowly and steadily we built a quirky friendship. As the years passed, we grew together as writers, and I remember very clearly the night she told me she’d been thinking of starting a blog