Category Archives: The Search

It’s Research Wednesday! Where I share the latest, or most fascinating, in the science of friendship. “Friendship became a kind of parenting strategy: By treating Child as Adult, parents hoped that the kid would actually become an adult, and a … Continue reading →

Last week I was lucky enough to do a reading for a group of employees at the Miller Coors headquarters in Chicago. It was really fun. Not just to meet the employees, but to get to see what the office … Continue reading →

So on Wednesday we discussed female animal friendships—they’re real and they’re deep. To observe such relationships, anthropologists will travel into the wild to observe animals in their natural habitats. As the wannabe Jane Goodall of friendship, I too have ventured out … Continue reading →

It’s Research Wednesday! Where I share the latest, or most fascinating, in the science of friendship. “In animals as diverse as African elephants and barnyard mice, blue monkeys of Kenya and feral horses of New Zealand, affiliative, longlasting and mutually … Continue reading →

I spend a lot of time on this blog bemoaning my lack of high-school style friendships. “I started this search wanting a BFF like I had in high school,” I find myself saying to book clubs all the time. “Where … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new show Best Friends Forever, the NBC sitcom about, uh, two best friends forever. But I’m far more interested in HBO’s new ode to friendship, Girls. The show, which premiered on Sunday, is about four … Continue reading →

It’s Research Wednesday! Where I share the latest, or most fascinating, in the science of friendship. “New research has found that tragic films can actually make us feel happier. The findings, published in the journal Communication Research, suggest that those tearjerkers have a … Continue reading →

Let’s chat about something I don’t understand about guys. Why do they never call their friends, “friends”? It’s always “my high school buddy and I used to down 40s” or “I’m going on a road trip with my buddy” or … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of years I’ve tested out a number of friend-making services. You’d be amazed how much is out there, and how not-awkward they are. It occurred to me this morning that I don’t have these different sites/organizations in … Continue reading →

It’s Research Wednesday! Where I share the latest, or most fascinating, in the science of friendship. “Only once the sexes mixed on equal and familiar terms at school, at work and in the social spaces in between — only once … Continue reading →