Tag: friendship

Place was also indispensable to our friendship whether we realized it or not. For all our determination to be malcontents, we did secretly love our home.

When I became a Washington, D.C. newsroom intern, Twitter usage was mandatory (primarily so that we could help run the magazine’s Twitter account). I...

During a class I was teaching at our parish last fall, a woman pulled me aside afterwards to ask a question. The woman was...

My piece at Ethika Politika: Aristotle's Key to Christmas

“Surely he should keep a remembrance of their former intimacy…” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Sometimes it feels like Aristotle foresaw all the vicissitudes of my life....

This is what we all need now: a deep belly-laugh.

He was looking at me with what appeared to be some degree of disbelief.

But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”

Several times lately I’ve opened my email and found notices about people who want to friend me, but I don’t think that means they...

In today’s Los Angeles Times, Neil Gabler has an insightful piece on the way in which the “gang of friends” has become the dominant social group on American television.