My neighbor, Debbie, isn’t an ordinary person. She trains macaws to play dead, curtsy, bow, and spread their wings proudly when she tells them they’re eagles. She teaches them these things so they can perform at a small amusement park. The kids love it and that makes Debbie really happy.
She also fires up a chainsaw […]

Friendships are relationships that we choose to have — unlike family relationships that are dictated by birth. A friend is someone who fulfills a need — whether it’s social or emotional or some other need. When the friend no longer fulfills that need or the need no longer exists, and the friend becomes obsolete, people […]

Discrepancies in income are only sticky if one person in the relationship is embarrassed or lying about their funds. The best way to be friends with anyone is to be honest. If you’re different sizes, different races, different religions or from different socio-economic brackets, the best way to be friends or have a relationship is […]

No man is an island. People have the need to share their experiences. Even cavemen wrote of their experiences on the walls of their caves so that others could read them. Storytelling is an ancient art because of this need to share experience. Friendships are the quintessential relationship to satisfy this human need to hear […]

If someone had told me, five years ago, that I would be looking up Rastafarian holidays so that I could send my son’s cellmate an appropriate holiday card, I would’ve thought one of us was on peyote or something stronger. But it’s true.
I didn’t (couldn’t) stop sobbing for the better part of a week last […]

Fighting is important in any relationship, but when two female friends have a blow out, mending the fence can be difficult. Here are step by step directions on how to do it:
OPTION 1: MAKE UP
If you want to make up with a friend, it’s sometimes hard to take the first step. Here are some tips […]