After living in San Francisco for three years, I still feel like I’m new in town. I go to a lot of college alumni events, Web commenter meetups, networking parties, and other places alone,... Read more >>

“I don’t write letters anymore, I send emails. I don’t even have actual pictures anymore, just jpeg files. I barely use the phone to talk, I just send a text. I have friends who live... Read more >>

Married couple, early thirties, seeks same for enjoyable evenings spent enjoying cool restaurants, drunken afternoons in wine country, and general hooliganry. Kids okay, as long as you leave them at... Read more >>

Social dynamics exist in every age and time, so it should have come as no surprise to me that bullies, nerds, and mean girls would follow me well beyond graduation, greeting me everywhere from the... Read more >>

You say these words, to break my heart. But I feel better, when we are apart. How does it feel, now that things are too real? You can’t fake it with me, because I am already FREE! Next... Read more >>

To be a good friend, you must first be honest and true. You must be open-minded. However, you must remain good friends without anyone coming between the two of you. People are always encouraging... Read more >>

When we were younger, making friends was easy. School provides us with an instant pool of people our own age that we interact with on a daily basis and who are in the same boat we are. But once we... Read more >>

Beyond bribing our children’s peers with candy or passes to the skate rink in an attempt to get other children to play with ours, can we really help our children make friends? Yes, by providing... Read more >>

You can’t actually make someone like you. But you can behave in ways that will make it slightly more likely. After all, we all want to feel that other people like us—that they seek our... Read more >>

I thought I could escape her but alas, my time has come. Like a German-speaking Grim Reaper, the Swiss cold germs have found me and I’m spending my third week of living in Switzerland as a... Read more >>