Tell Your Life Story?

My Friendships

The Last Bookstore on Earth: A short-short story

Would You Prefer an AI Friend?

StuporHeroes Parables, Episode 7: HiderMan

Give...and Give...and Give...Sigh

Making and Keeping Good Friends

Making and Keeping Good Friends

The Art of Making and Keeping Good Friends

The Importance of Asking Why: It helps you understand another person...and maybe yourself

My Psychology Today article today offers "why" questions that can help you understand yourself better and, if you're trying to understand another person, give wordings that reduce the chances that you'll be perceived as invasive.

After each question, I offer a few possible answers that are drawn from my clients, friends, and me. Those answers demonstrate how helpful such questions can be.

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.

Friends Over Family? A look at society's most exalted institution

That's the topic of my Psychology Today article today.

Your Child’s Friendships: Encouraging and developing good ones

My Psychology Today article today offers thoughts on how a parent can support a child in developing good friendships.

Losing Friends: What to do about political disagreement, hurt feelings, boredom

You liked each other . . . and then, splat. There are the standard reasons: taking offense, boredom, and outgrowing the person. But today, there's a fast-growing reason: political disagreement. The latter also truncates the universe of possible new friendships. These days it seems that people mainly befriend political kindred spirits.

My Psychology Today article today offers thoughts on each:

Your Child's Friends: Doables that encourage good friendships

Psychologist Judith Rich’s research found that peers influence children more even than parents do. Certainly, friends can influence your child, and you can boost the chances of that influence being positive. I offer doables in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

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.

Did You Ever Wish You Found a True Kindred Spirit?

I pretty much have everything one could ask for in life. Yet, I continue to search for something more. My latest thought is to try to find a true kindred spirit, someone who is nearly alike me.

When people tell me about an amazingly close friendship, it's usually between people who are almost alike, who could almost be twins. Perhaps that's what I want.

So, if after reading my blog posts and my profile, you feel you might be a true kindred spirit, feel free to email me at mnemko@comcast.net.