Is all our texting, DMing and emailing bringing us closer to people or creating barriers to authentic communication?
We’ll stay in touch. We mean it when we say it to our friends, as we move away, or they move away. Only we don’t — not that much, not for that long. We have lives where we are and they have lives where they are. Every day brings things that need to be …
Every time I see a story about alcohol-related problems, it feels somewhat alien to me. I’ve never been drunk. Nobody in my family has a drinking problem, and to my knowledge, none of my friends do (though some of them have had bad experiences with oth …
It can be hard to accept that there are times when you’re dependent on other people, especially when you’re a long-term single
The other day I posted some of C.S. Lewis’ thoughts on “The Dangers of Friendship” from The Four Loves. But of course, friendship is meant to be a blessing, and he had a lot to say about that in the same book. Lewis celebrated the freedom of friendship …
One of the things that’s so valuable about C.S. Lewis is his knack for warning us against spiritual dangers that we’re apt not to notice. Case in point: Last night, while leafing through a book of his quotes, I came across some from The Four Loves unde …
Several months ago I had a falling out with a friend. I felt I was in the right, so did he. I was so set in the fact that I had been wronged that I didn’t initiate any contact, and we hadn’t talked much since then. But today I had a realization: I miss …
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