Friendship

White Elephant Exchange Livens Holiday Party

December 10, 2012
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I attended a white elephant gift exchange holiday party. White elephant gifts are tacky and sometimes strange. The idea is to to rid yourself of a tacky gift and invariably gain a new one!

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Celebrating a Friend’s Passing with a Garden of Flowers

July 3, 2012
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My friend asked friends and relatives to celebrate the passing of her partner by bringing flowers. The room glowed with hydrangeas, sunflowers, roses, star gazers, and lilies.

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Meal Train Helps Friends Support Friends With Meals

August 2, 2011
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Meal Train is the perfect solution for friends who are going through a difficult or challenging time due to a birth, surgery, or illness and could use some help.

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Four Grandmas Celebrate Sixty Years of Friendship

April 14, 2011
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Three of my oldest and dearest friends and I celebrated our birthdays together. Three of us met in elementary school. Two of us knew each other before we were born!

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Lilith Fair Still Has the Magic

July 17, 2010
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Lilith Fair 2010, the women’s music festival co-founded by Sarah McLachlan, still has the magic it did for me when I first attended in 1999. The line up included ’80s singers Heart and the Bangles, as well as the new pop singer, Colbie Caillat.

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Do You Have Time for Friends?

June 18, 2010
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Friendship has always been essential in my life. But since I’ve become a grandma, I have less time for my friends. A 2006 study showed that Americans have one-third fewer confidants than they did in the 1980s.

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