This month’s topic is MONEY MONEY MONEY. Does it bother you when friends ask what you spent on something? Does it bother you when a friend avoids answering a financial question? Please read the …
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The Friends Who Got Away
by Caryn Berardi I had just found a seat in the spacious hotel ballroom where the conference keynote address was about to begin when, despite an overabundance of empty chairs, another woman sat …
Love in the Time of the Garbage Patch
by Sarah Reddick I met her on OKCupid, a dating app she immediately described to me as a “spice rack of dysfunction.” We started talking and didn’t stop for two months. She is forty-five, …
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Casual Friendship: You Can Be Friendly Without Committing to Friendship
What can casual friendship teach us? Instead of answering an anonymous question this month, I want to discuss a friendship article from The Today Show’s parenting site that’s appeared consistently on …
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Teaching My Son That Great Men Let Tears Fall
by Angela Anagnost-Repke “Will I cry, Mommy?” My son’s voice trembled before getting his three-year-old immunization shots. We sat in the cramped room of the pediatrician’s …
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Why Don’t My Kids Understand How Cool I Am?
By Meredith Bland It took us ten years to get here, but it has finally happened: my kids no longer think I’m cool. In fact, they think I am really, truly, mind-numbingly uncool. It …
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