Category: Friendship

Exploring COVID-19’s other woundings

Adjusting to new / Community / COVID-19 / faith / faith and life / Fear / Friendship / hard times / Health / Hope of the world / loving others / relationships / thinking differently

At this writing, our globe has grappled with COVID-19 for almost a year. It has changed everything for too many people, and too many things for everyone. “I don’t want a new normal,” my friend said, referring to those pandemic changes. She stamped her foot a bit and fumed. “I—we …

Saying good-bye to dear friends

Adjusting to new / BFF / faith and life / Friendship / gratitude / kindred spirit / Matters of the heart / memories / Movin' on / relationships

Glenda and I have been best friends almost 30 years. I don’t need to explain the close friendships of women to the ladies reading this. How you can laugh together so loud and long that your eyes get all squinty and your nose and eyes and makeup run and you’re …