This week has been… uh… interesting? That cannot be the right word. But I am too worn out to think of anything else. Earlier in the week I had plans to make fresh beans (from dried beans, you know) and on the way out of the house to the girls’ dance class (which lasts two
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Didn’t you love all those posts? I DID! I already have another idea for another subject in a couple of months. Anywho, I already have a “Friendship To Do List” after reading the posts: Work on making good impressions (I get sooo nervous with first impressions, and if I’m in a group of people —
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How to make friends as a grown woman I have experienced something intriguing in the past five years or so. It is the social media friendship vs. the face-to-face friendship. I have discovered some interesting things that seem to be unspoken. The first is that time after time, women I have been drawn to online
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Making Friends as a Grown Woman You know what? I’ve always made friends easily. Blame Connie (my mom), who never met a stranger she didn’t try to send a Christmas card to the next year, or a family reunion she didn’t want to attend. Her address book is full of the most random of connections but you can
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DO be friends with sexy flight attendants because when you’re traveling home to TX from NC and you’re all giddy from just having spent 11 days with your Lover who had just been deployed for 7 months, that sexy flight attendant WILL tell the pilot to make an announcement over the intercom telling the ENTIRE
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Making Friends as an Adult I need friends. The older I get, the more I realize I need them. There was a brief period in my life when I didn’t think I needed them as much as I do. I met an amazing guy and wanted to spend every second with him. It didn’t take
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A life lesson I refuse to learn … It seems even older women, who we know are nearly perfect, have lessons to learn. You’d think everything we needed to know we’d have learned in kindergarten, but apparently making friends is an ongoing learning process. And some lessons are harder to learn than others. Last May
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Sometimes breaking in new friendships can be about as comfortable as breaking in a new pair of stilettos–they look super cute but the first few trips to Walmart are killers. Making friend with other women can be broken down in phases, and not all the girls you meet and like will move through every phase.
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This subject of lady friends has been on my mind for the last few weeks, since Vanessa asked me to write up my thoughts on the subject. I don’t have buckets of besties. I have a handful of great friends. The ones that are hard to offend, quick to help and slow to judge. They
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Be That Friend! … Everyone hopes to find one true friend who’s that kind you can count on for forever and a day. Be that friend, be that kind that you’ve prayed you might find and you’ll always have a best friend, come what may. Michael McClain When I was asked to write down my
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