Tell Your Life Story?

Lyft: A fictional short-short story

Peeping Paul: A fictional short-short story

My Friendships

Would You Prefer an AI Friend?

Pen Pals in the Email Era? A fictional short-short story

The Red Stamp: A fictional short-short story

Making and Keeping Good Friends

Making and Keeping Good Friends

The Art of Making and Keeping Good Friends

BFFs? A short-short story

Puff, The Sequel

How to Interview a Friend or Relative

When You or Your Child Doesn't Have Close Friends

Many people, adults and kids, have casual friends but not close ones. My Psychology Today article today offers composite letters from such an adult and such a child and my responses to each.

5 Questions About Friends: Toward having a true BFF

Thomas Aquinas wrote, "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

It may not be so black-and-white.

My Psychology Today article today asks you five questions that may help you have a true BFF. 

Your Romantic Partner as Friend

After the infatuation stage, the friend part of a romantic relationship is core to its satisfaction and longevity.

My Psychology Today article today offers suggestions on how to develop that friendship.

2 COVID Strains on a Relationship

Yesterday, I wrote about two COVID strains: holiday gatherings and remote schooling.

My Psychology Today article today focuses on two COVID strains on relationships. They’re seemingly small problems, definitely in the category of first-world problems, yet a few of my clients have reported that such apparent trivialities are quite straining their relationship. The first problem: being bored with the friends in their COVID bubble. The second problem: arguing about what movies and TV to watch.

A Grown-Up's Guide to Friendship

When we were kids, we made friends by acting and looking cool and by being nice but so nice that we seemed desperate.

As adults, many people use the same tactics. And they work, but as grown-ups, we’re capable of more. 

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers ideas for making and deepening platonic friendships and for surviving disagreements.

Making and Keeping Good Friendships

After you’re out of school, it may not be as easy to make friends. My PsychologyToday.com article today may help. Here we’re talking about platonic friends, not romantic ones.

Making a New Friend: The many flavors of friends and how to find one that’s right for you.

Recently, a few clients to me they wish they had more friends. So I wrote today's PsychologyToday.com article on making friends. HERE is the link.