Essays on making the first move with friends: inviting, following up, saying how you feel, and not waiting to be asked.
The neighborly decline, and the rule about asking for help that I had backwards my whole life
You know the friend you’ve been meaning to text for three months? Back then something…
And other things I say but rarely follow through on.
I haven’t heard from my neighborhood friends in a while, and I keep wondering: Is…
and why some friendships die when you stop reaching out
I used to assume my friends knew how I felt about them. We’d been through…
