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Making Friends Who Don’t Look Like Us

Acquiring friends of different races means we need to be thoughtful and make a choice to be diverse in who we become friends with.

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An Ode to the Friends of Our Friends

Many of us have good friends who have good friends we know of. We hear stories about them and their lives—when they succeed, when they struggle—because those things affect our friend. On social media, we see photos of our friend with the other people in their lives, at the beach, on vacation, picking kids up […]

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Friendships Are Rarely Our Primary Relationships

Friendships are rarely our primary relationships; and this can be difficult to navigate for some friends.

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Text Me When You Get Home: The Proof of the Power of Friendships

We look forward to evenings out with our best female friends for many reasons. These gatherings are a reward after a long week at work, or a welcome change of scenery from managing our household and its occupants (spouses, kids, pets and more), or caregiving of parents or other relatives and friends. This gathering of […]

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Sport, Competition, Friendship and Paying it Forward

This is a must read!  When you come to the end of this story, about the friendship among three female Canadian cross-country cyclists at the top of their sport, you will be inspired and awed by their commitment to one another and to the generation of young female athletes coming up behind them. You won’t […]