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REINVENTING FRIENDSHIP: MIDLIFE GUYS

July 24, 2023 by

Try reinventing friendship when your main guys move away. It happens, and it will happen more than once. You might move away, they might move away, then what? How do you break in new friends?

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ADULT FRIENDSHIP FAILS TO AVOID

April 21, 2023 by

Adult friendship is a balancing act. They are either too friendly, or distant. Too enthusiastic, or remote. And it’s always ‘them?’ Ok, boomer.

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CONTAGIOUS FRIENDSHIP LESSONS FROM REAL LIFE

June 11, 2022 by

Contagious friendship sounds odd in the Covid era, but what else can you call it? People dedicated to spending time with each other make it happen. The best part is how friendship influences another. If this is your experience also, then you need to answer one question:

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NO FRIENDS? SOUNDS LIKE A SAFE LIFE

March 27, 2022 by

During ‘my research’ I came across this gem: “If you have no friends you’ll probably never get Covid19.” This isn’t the sort of research that leads to cockeyed ideas on how to treat Covid once you get it. My research is different than people who say they’re ‘doing research’ but who don’t understand what research […]

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MALE FRIENDSHIPS? WHO DECIDES YOUR BEST FRIENDS, pt2

October 28, 2021 by

Do male friendships need wife approval for a happy marriage? It depends. My wife has wonderful friends. When I wonder why, I come to one conclusion: She’s a wonderful friend to them so they can all be wonderful friends together. If I take a deeper dive into friendships I see most of her girlfriends are […]

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MALE FRIENDSHIP? WHO DECIDES YOUR BEST FRIEND FOREVER

October 27, 2021 by

For ‘male friendship’ I searched for ‘old pic of best friends.’ What showed up? Images of women friends. If that’s surprising, then you need to know more about male friendship. It’s different than female friendship. How different?

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MUSIC FRIENDS STARTER KIT

August 30, 2021 by

Music friends find each other, but they need to be playing. Otherwise you’d never know if they are musical, or just like talking about it. Yesterday I spent time with one of my music heroes in the studio. I say hero because he can do things that seem impossible, like creating music from scratch, recording […]

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OPTIONAL FRIENDSHIP: YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT

June 16, 2021 by

An optional friendship depends on time and place. But it’s not your time or your place. Tell me if this sounds familiar: “I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to do anything, but in between my schedule, my plans, my obligations, my interests, my work, my obsessions, my fears, we should get together sometime.” […]

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FRONT YARD LADY FRIENDS BEFORE THE SMOKE

September 15, 2020 by

A big reveal from the forest fires in Oregon is understanding the front yard. With a little help, all of the beauty of shrubbery would burn. Before the fires and smoke, when it was a ‘normal’ lockdown pandemic, the front yard was a place to host friends for lunch. More accurately, it was where my […]

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HOW BASKETBALL CREATED A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDSHIP

July 2, 2020 by

Basketball is one of then smaller teams in team sports. Baseball carries nine players the field, football eleven, but only five for hoops. And it’s the only one of the big three where players can compete one on one. In the other sports the most you can do with two is play catch.

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