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The Handwritten Letter: How To Tell A Friend You Adore Her

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Handwritten Letter

Author and teacher Callie Feyen tells the heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship sealed with a legacy of handwritten letters.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Patron Only

Gratitude Together: So This Is Friendship

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

A friendship built around love of breakfast and Ted Kooser yields a surprising poem in difficult days.

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Gratitude Together: Leftover Astonishments

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

Astonishments

“Do you know any of Anna Kamienska’s poetry? ‘Astonishments’ is my favorite,” Callie Feyen texted to her friend Stephanie. “I’ve been contemplating the last two lines of her ‘Gratitude’ poem: ‘Gratitude is a scattered / homeless love.’”

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Literary Friends: Charles Dickens, John Forster, Jane Carlyle, and Me

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Literary Friends Dickens Carlyle Forster lambs playing

“I’d decided going to graduate school was a mistake, and began to make plans to give up,” says Callie Feyen. “Enter Charles Dickens, John Forster, and Jane Carlyle.”

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Literary Friends: Peter Pan Meets Sherlock Holmes

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Viaduct J.M. Barrie Arthur Conan Doyle

The friendship of James M. Barrie, who wrote “Peter Pan,” and Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, survived parody, cricket, and literary fame.

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Literary Friends: Keeping Anna Akhmatova Alive

By Sandra Heska King 34 Comments

Statue grief

Anna Akhmatova’s friends memorized her poems to keep her work alive when it was too dangerous to put pen to paper. Sandra Heska King spotlights this life and death role of literary friends.

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Cross-Generational Friendships: Where’s My Daughter? Call Her Forth

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Beautiful Red Leaves Juliet Thoughts

One glimmering night, three generations, and a whole lot of love—with a little Shakespeare to flavor the memory. From author Callie Feyen.

Filed Under: Blog, Cross-Generational Friendships, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Shakespeare, The Teacher Diaries

Cross-Generational Friendships: I Signed Up for a Toddler Swim Class

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

Toddler Swim Class penguin on rock

Join Claire Haidar as the beach umbrella among little bottles of suntan lotion (or, the grownup in the toddler swim class) in this delightful cross-generational story.

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Difficult Conversations: Disorganized Narrative Inside

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Difficult Conversations sunset at shore with waves

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Cross-Generational Friendships—Wanted: Inquisitive Angel

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Autumn Flower Friendships

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Difficult Conversations: Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Difficult Conversations The Identity Conversation

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Difficult Conversations: Mind the Whales

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

Difficult Conversations Feeling Conversation

We continue our book club discussion of Difficult Conversations with an exploration of the Feelings Conversation— accompanied by a humorous and thoughtful look at Claire Trévien’s “Whales.”

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Difficult Conversations Book Club: Let’s First Hear from Aunt Bertha

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Difficult Conversations ferris wheel at night

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Difficult Conversations Pod Club: On Being’s “The Art of Peace” with John Paul Lederach

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

The Art of Peace

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Introvert Paradise: To Find the Imperial Friend, Part II

By Rick Maxson 7 Comments

Introverts Paradise 67 GTO

Richard Maxson concludes his reflection on growing up and finding the confidence to live as himself, this time in the engine of a white ’64 GTO.

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Introvert Paradise Pod Club: How Do Introverts Share Ideas

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

How Introverts Share Ideas flamingos

Environments that allow both extroverts and introverts to thrive are key to flourishing creativity. We’re discussing Susan Cain’s The Power of Introverts.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Introvert Paradise, Patron Only

Difficult Conversations: Book Club & Pod Club Announcement

By Will Willingham

Difficult Conversations craggy rocks in fog

In October, the focus of our Friendship Project turns to the subject of Difficult Conversations. Join us for upcoming book and pod club discussions on this important topic.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Difficult Conversations, Friendship Project, Pod Club

Introvert Paradise: A Scheduled Meeting to Read Sacredly

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

Introvert Paradise Reading Harry Potter Together

Introverts can find paradise by reading a text sacredly in a scheduled meeting with a friend. Especially if it’s Harry Potter.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Introvert Paradise, Patron Only, Reading and Books

Introvert Paradise: Pod Club Announcement: How Do Introverts Share Ideas?

By Will Willingham

The Power of Introverts rocks and water

A few years ago, researcher Susan Cain quietly raised a hand at the back of a crowded, extroverted corporate and academic culture and created, for some among us, a veritable raucous permission to continue to be our introverted selves.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Introvert Paradise

Introvert Paradise: To Find the Imperial Friend

By Rick Maxson 3 Comments

Introvert Paradise Spain

Richard Maxson understands the respite an introvert finds in the space of his own head in this tender piece about coming of age on an exotic international journey.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Introvert Paradise, Patron Only

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