Category Archives: friendship
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i will never understand men: hard-wired attraction and the quest for companionship
Posted on June 24, 2014 by nikkimeredith in dating and breakups, friendship, health and beauty, science/research.My last memory of Jacob was on a bright, February day. The air had a crisp, astringent quality. We had just finished our monthly hike in the woods behind my house and we were having lunch at a local café. My dog, Alice, still panting from the hike, was tethered to his chair. He leaned […]
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friends of friends / after a good friend dies
Posted on August 26, 2013 by nikkimeredith in friendship.What falls away is always. And is near. -Theodore Roethke About ten years ago, four of us – two couples — were sitting on the deck of a house at Sea Ranch, shielding our eyes from the dazzling sun. We were passing the binoculars around, trying to spot dolphins leaping through the surf. Though the […]
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sex, surrogacy and supper: the movie the sessions, part 1
Posted on December 17, 2012 by nikkimeredith in friendship, health and beauty, movie review, odds and sods.Last week I was having dinner with six of my friends – all of them, to one degree or other, hip or at least hipish. I mentioned that I saw The Sessions, the recently released film starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes. I was fired-up about the film and I wanted to discuss it. Specifically, […]
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living with chronic pain – someone else’s: part I
Posted on November 2, 2012 by nikkimeredith in family, friendship, health and beauty, migraine and chronic pain.I woke up this morning smiling. It was the first morning in three days that I didn’t have either searing pain behind my right eye or nausea. I took the dog for a walk with a sizable bounce in my step. I ate breakfast and after breakfast I took a shower and, as I towel-dried […]
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the end of gift giving (as we once knew it)
Posted on December 10, 2011 by nikkimeredith in family, friendship, holidays, rituals.The Royal Library, Denmark According to the New York Times, the recipients of gifts are no longer content with leaving it up to you to decide, they want what they want and they want you to get it for them. We the givers, writes Penelope Green, are being treated like “catalogs or department stores, brandishing […]
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