No Love Lost: Maintaining a LDR with Your Best Friend

Happy Best Friend Day! One (horrid) symptom of growing up is mobility and finding yourself hours away from some of the people you hold near and dear, particularly your best friend. I actually met my best friend in high school (we celebrated our 10 year best friendaversary at the beginning of this month with sappy […]

Book Clubs, Because that’s a thing?

Last week, I met with my Twitter Book Club (via Groupme, thank you technology!) for my first book club meeting. We read Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones. (Great book, and the author answers Twitter mobs/questions.) Thought I loved the book, what I really loved was the instant camaraderie and positive chemistry with the participants in […]

Meeting the Parents (Isn’t So Bad After All)

Soon after my boyfriend and I made it official, we decided that I should probably meet the parents. Since they live in the same town, we arranged for me to visit their home on a Saturday evening. My married coworker, who is always eager to give unsolicited relationship advice, told me to dress conservatively. Moms […]