Final Friends. As the world falls away, do our friends depart as well?

How important are friends as we lay dying? What happens to friendships at end of life? As I have been… Read more Final Friends. As the world falls away, do our friends depart as well?

Can’t we just be friends? How our personality type affects our friendships.

A long time ago I wrote about how my partner Scot and I answered a marriage compatibility survey. The question… Read more Can’t we just be friends? How our personality type affects our friendships.

I’m not sure just when I learned about proximity friendship. It’s been years. But even back then, the term and… Read more Proximity Friendship or: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder versus Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

Looking for companionship mid-60s is significantly different than when I was in my 30s, but one thing has not changed:… Read more Ten months of Match.com. Make Me a Match, Find me a Find.*

Boyfriends. Girlfriends. Writing friends. College friends. Husband friends. Couple friends. They come in all shapes and sizes, young and old.… Read more Who are your friends? The overlapping circles of friendship.

Are you a single person with friends who are couples? Or are you one of those that once soloed, you… Read more Couples Friends

How did your high school friends impact your life? Or did they at all? Mine did, and here’s how. I… Read more High School Friends—Mean Girls or Not?

Friends, lovers, playmates. How I survived 32 years of marriage and maintained my sanity. I was married for 32 years… Read more My Husband, My Friend

When I first started working, a female co-worker told me that a woman either had a romantic relationship with a… Read more Boy-Type Friends. Can men and women be friends?

My oldest friend from college, and a woman I wrote letters to for thirty years, died in 2008. In 1972… Read more A College Friend like No Other