Some folks are way too slow to claim new friends. Can I get an “amen” up in here?! They won’t claim just anyone. Prime example? I know this guy. Once upon a time, I had this friend. We would hang out and laugh and eat tacos at the local taco place in our college town. […]
5 Ways to Find Community in Adulthood
There is this thing that happens shortly after I write a post about friendship. The post is up and the messages, emails, and comments begin. For the most part, the communication is a light-hearted sharing of happiness between friends or the kind affirmation of readers to say that they enjoyed the article…but there is another […]
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The Friendship Every Woman Really Needs
We sit on her couch for hours, the three of us, looking at pictures in photo albums and telling the biggest stories of our lives. We sip coffee and dip some chips in home-made guacamole. She even bought Mountain Dew because…well, I am a party with a little Dew. As mothers of little children, we had rushed home after evening […]
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The Welcoming of Hearts
There is this part of me that wants to be warmly and graciously hospitable. I host a weekly playgroup for stay-at-home moms. We have the blessing of bouncing ideas off of one another over a cup of coffee or three, though we sometimes cancel for the (too often) sick, germ-infested kiddos because we mothers take the spreading […]
