I am sitting all alone in the Phoenix airport. I got to the Charlotte airport 9 hours ago. I was scheduled to leave at 9:35 on a direct flight to San Francisco, landing at noon and spending the day with my dear friend Cris. She lives in Sacramento and is going to pick me up […]
The Real Me
I sat in the circle dreading my turn to talk. The facilitator of our “team-building” activity had asked our group of eight to answer these questions: What do you love to do? If finances were unlimited and failure was unlikely, what would be your dream? I started praying we’d run out of time before they […]
To Find a Friend, Be a Friend
When we first moved to Charlotte, I had no friends. But I did have a little hope that one day I’d find at least one. You see, before we moved from Virginia, my mom mailed me an article she’d seen in the newspaper about some women in Charlotte, NC who were college graduates that decided […]
Friendship Give-Away Winner
Thanks to all of you who came by this past week and hung out with me so we could talk about friendships. I love girl-talk about stuff women don’t usually discuss – like comparison, compulsive email checking, wanting friends but wondering if anyone else would want to be your friend, the challenge of making/finding time […]
Comparison: The Friendship Killer
When we first moved to Charlotte in July 1995, we didn’t know anyone. JJ had just graduated from VA Tech 6 weeks earlier, we had a newborn (Joshua) and were both starting new jobs – me at home; him at work. Here I was in a new city, looking for a new church and hoping […]