Category: Relationships

Recently, I read Rules for Visiting, by Jessica Francis Kane, for a book club I facilitate at work. In this novel, the quirky protagonist, May, gets a few months off work and uses part of that time to visit old friends.

I’ve been thinking about a particular kind of loneliness that’s deeper than having limited social connection.

I have to say I resonated with so much in this article,

The other day I was shredding my big bag of papers(!) per this year’s list, when I noticed a $319 charge for Ancestry.com on an old debit account statement. “That’s strange,” I thought.

Recently I taught my students about growth vs. fixed mindset. This concept is often used in educational settings. How do we look at ability? Is it predetermined, or can we work at something and improve? Studies show that students who are taught to have a growth mindset — to keep trying and learning from failure — are more successful in …

I recently discovered Table Topics, a getting-to-know-you card deck.

The term “disenfranchised grief” refers to grief that is not validated by society, whether because the loss, the relationship, or the griever is not acknowledged or approved of.

My friend had the wisest observation: why do some people’s brachos feel uncomfortable and cringey, and others’ are warm and appreciated?

A friend was talking to me about feeling pressure to get a relationship to progress after X number of dates (and did Zoom dates count for the tally?). An analogy came to mind: “Counting dates is like counting

Do they give you chizuk?