Tag Archives: friendship

Stories

RS: You talk a lot about the importance of sharing our stories. Why’s that? BP: People’s hearts and minds are changed by storytelling. They’re changed by hearing other people’s experiences. If you don’t have access to seeing someone else’s lived experience, … Continue reading →

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Entertaining

1. You don’t have to serve dinner to have a dinner party. Snacks can be dinner. And if those snacks run out, pizza is always a phone call away.  2. Rather than a hard start time, give people an arrival window: “Come over … Continue reading →

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Friendships in Adulthood

Friendships require two people occasionally showing up in the same spaces — whether a room with windows and walls, or the heart space created by a phone call or text. I have a friend who has pushed me out of … Continue reading →

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My Radiant Light

My close friends know that I lost my mother to ovarian cancer. They don’t know that five years later, I lost my brother to a fatal accident — and that within months of his passing, my father also died, his … Continue reading →

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Money Talk

It might be helpful to their friends if they were specific about their goals, if it’s not too personal. ‘I’m saving up for a down payment,’ or ‘[I’m trying to] increase my emergency fund, or to invest.’ ‘My washing machine … Continue reading →

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