

With Friends Like These…
I have said before that I am blessed with some of the most amazing friends in the world, and days like today really remind me of just how true that is. For the last couple of days I have been up in New York City for a work function—for my “paying” job. I like NYC. It’s a great city. I would like it even better though if I could manage to get my act together enough to visit JUST for pleasure instead of always around work. Unfortunately, going up there carries with it certa


Timing is Everything and Good Friends are AWESOME!
I have often commented on the fact that I have truly amazing people in my life. What I don’t think I’ve discussed before is how they have some of the world’s most impeccable timing. I can always count on them to be there for me, even when I don’t fully realize I even need them to be. For example, last weekend I was having a bit of a rough time. A series of things were just going wrong in my world, leading to a great deal of self-doubt. I found myself somewhat neurotically


The Spectrum of Friendship
When we are children, friendship is an easy thing. We find someone we take a shining to on the playground, walk up to them and declare them to be our friend—more or less. There are times it doesn’t work out so easily, but the ability to make (and un-make) friends seems a lot simpler when we are children, like so many things in our lives. As we get older it becomes a lot more complicated. We have to take in account things like similar interests, lifestyles, schedules. What