Friendship – Page 2

The Best Advice I’ve Heard in Ages

Like most people on this planet, I have some hot-tempered friends and relatives in my life. Although they’re lovely the

I have a face that is, for better or worse, approachable. In college, a friend mentioned that before we met,

Halfway through my 36th year, on a hamster-wheel day packed with lunchbox-making, cat feeding, working, going to doctor’s appointments, grocery

This past weekend, my friend Maureen hosted her 44th birthday party. We snapped Polaroids and drank Champagne and ate coconut

“Vermont got a lot of rain this summer, but on my birthday it was finally sunny, so we went for

I come from a big family — like, 30-people-passing-rolls-around-the-table big. When newcomers arrive, one of us will give them the

Last fall, when Alex and I were beginning to split up and life felt like a pencil sharpener (I was

A few nights ago, the boys were happily melting their brains during screentime, so I decided to take a little

The other day, a CoJ reader asked a friendship etiquette question… “We host friends regularly,” commented JW on this post

This morning, my sister Lucy and I were chatting on the phone… “What TV or movie character do you feel