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Friendship

Well maybe it’s not the big payback. A better title might be – paying it backwards.I have been given the […]

I almost never host cookouts because I don’t have the outdoor furnishings to accommodate more than my husband and I, […]

My life last week during this most enjoyable Boston summer was brimming with events that ran the spectrum of emotional […]

Couples tend to watch each other: he watches my food intake, I watch his drinking. Watching…noticing personal habits, foibles, tendencies and […]

I heard from three people on Monday, April 26, that I hadn’t heard from in a while. The coinkidink (coincidence) […]

It Ain’t All About You – Communication Issues with Friends My friendships with a couple of long-term friends are in […]

I met a young girl waiting on the bus in Dorchester to go to Fields Corner. (Some mornings I do […]

Today I’ve been thinking about friends I’ve lost.Some have passed on and “I’ll meet them on the other shore,” as […]

I I got caught up in the madness and excited when the first day I signed up on Facebook I […]

I saw you see me and try to act like you didn’t.I could have ignored you, too, and at another […]

It has been my great privilege/blessing/luck to have benefited, recently, from assistance from a number of friends. I want to…I […]

How do you keep from absorbing the pain of your loved ones? If your mate is ”having a terrible, horrible, […]

He’s “the poetry man, you make things alright.” sings Phoebe Snow in her song from 1989, One of my favorite […]

I didn’t know that really I didn’t. You never told me. I never asked. I never thought of asking. I’m […]

The holidays officially ended for me today because I finally took all the Christmas, New Year and Kwanzaa cards down. […]

I try to limit the number of trips I make with my dump truck to the dumps (i.e., ears) of […]

All goodbye ain’t gone. Sometimes this is a good thing, a thing you hope for, that the person who is […]

Where you been? OK, I’ll correct my grammar for the grummerians out there (I know it’s grammarians). Where have you […]