Pals, not parole officers
Sometimes I like to mess with my two best buddies by saying to someone one of them has introduced me to, “Hi, pleased to meet you.…
Connecting, clown-style
Though others may argue to the contrary, I have only ever been a clown once in my professional life. To be sure, I’ve slipped on a…
The permanent impact of seasonal friends
Good friends are like family, minus the crazy uncle. They may not share your physical genes, but they shape your spiritual and emotional DNA. And as…
A song of sympathy
There’s something just a little bit disconcerting about being in a roomful of people bouncing along happily to a song about your mother’s death. But it…
The gift of forever friends
Facebook may tell you that “friends” can be cut out of your life at the click of a button, but I believe that true friends are…
Finding myself through friends
I’ve long thought that it should really be called hemail, not email, because it’s an especially masculine form of communication: giving the appearance of closeness while…
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