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Tag: friendship

  • All the Lonely People

    I keep hearing about the loneliness epidemic and I distinctly remember what it felt like to be alone. Here are some reflections on my loneliest times, how I got there, and how I got out again.  Middle school was the first time that I chronically felt alone. I went from a warm little fifth grade…

  • Who Not to Friend 

    These days my young daughters are navigating the turns and twists of friendships and I try to give them good advice and also demonstrate what it is to be a good friend.  There are pitfalls to finding good friends. My kids know to avoid bullies, but there are subtle indicators of false friends too. The…

  • The Clean Up

    In the late nineteen nineties, I did a research paper on Hanford. It was the location of the part of the Manhattan Project where they refined plutonium for the creation of nuclear bombs used against Japan in WW2 and during the build up of the Cold War arsenal. Because of the secretive nature of national…