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The Friendship Shift Maybe you don't need more people in your circle, perhaps you just need ones that actually know you. There is a wild thing that can happen midlife. You can know plenty of people yet still somehow feel lonely. Your phone has a lot of contacts. You have people you invite for dinners, there are old friends you exchange birthday texts with, and yet... Who would you actually call if you needed to say, I'm having a really hard day, I don't need you to fix it. I

There comes a season in life when the question isn't "what's next?" It's "who am I now?" There are chapters of life that arrive with fanfare. Graduations. Weddings. The first day of a new job. Bringing babies into the world. We celebrate beginings because they are easy to recognize. But there are other chapters that slip in almost unnoticed. The children leave home one by one. Your carreer, once the centre of every conversation, may slowly become, something you used to do. Th

I'm pretty sure nobody wakes up hoping for a life that is simply busy. Deep down, I think we are all hoping for something else. More laughter around the dinner table, more evenings that stretch long past the sunset. More adventure that begins with, "why not?" I feel deep down, we are after more conversations that leave us feeling whole. However, meaningful experiences don't tend to have an announcement, or seem to come from a plan. Then tend to arrive when we least expect the

Somewhere along the way, it seems, we started to only celebrate special occasions and holidays. We saved our favorite recipes for company, our good dishes were brought out once a year, we told ourselves we would invite people over "when life is less busy." But what if we have been waiting for the wrong things? Some of the best gatherings begin with a last minute text with an impromptu invite. The neighbour who stops by and stays for dinner, the charcuterie that was built from