March 13, 2024
My friends are my soulmates
And I’ve realized that I can’t be the exception to love. If I have so much love to give, then I have to give some to myself too.
Friendship: 2024 creative non-fiction supplement
All in Friendship: 2024 creative non-fiction supplement
March 13, 2024
Finding friends
Don’t fight the universe! Friends will appear when they need to. And they won’t when they don’t.
March 13, 2024
A solid foundation
Sometimes, it just takes a bit of time and patience to find your people. Don’t give up, keep putting yourself out there and I promise it’ll be worth it.
March 13, 2024
Imagine this
A hot summer day. A playground. Bikes parked on the grass, some knocked over, some still standing.
March 13, 2024
Never walk away
It was the last night before our high school year-end ceremony. Thirty eighteen-year-old kids sat together around the campfire on the beach. The sea breeze, mixed with the fire, shifted through our faces.
March 12, 2024
A classroom friendship
In the fleeting period of time you spent together as friends, you’ll realize that they’ve become a part of you and your story in little ways.
March 12, 2024
Tug of war
I recently watched The Holdovers, a movie I recommend if you went to a stuffy school on the East Coast and/or didn’t have the most orthodox adolescent upbringing.
March 12, 2024
what does it mean to live?
it’s to know the joy of racing down the shores of the beach, kicking sand and sinking our feet into the cool underlayer
March 12, 2024
The debrief
There’s never any judgment between us. The debrief is all about supporting one another.
March 11, 2024
A letter to my long-distance friend
We live our beautiful, messy and chaotic lives thousands of kilometres apart.
March 11, 2024
Moving on
I hate the way you made me feel / I hate the way I cried / I hate the way I ran home / I hate that I had to hide.
March 11, 2024
The act of building again
No one really talks about how harrowing friendship break-ups are.
March 11, 2024
Leaving, driving, coming home
Once we graduate this type of constant proximity will be lost, but while it lasts, I’ll savour the limited car rides we have left together.
