Making and nurturing friends-especially in midlife-is more important than you may realize.

Camping fosters connection by removing daily distractions and bringing people with shared interests together. Most campers say it is easy to meet new people at campgrounds, making an average of four ...

Making friends is tough, and only gets tougher as we age. Friendship expert Janice McCabe recently wrote a piece for the New York Times that dug into the way new connections can be forged through ...

In recent years, people have been increasingly looking for new ways to form platonic connections, as loneliness and social isolation have become more prevalent. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General went ...

A practical guide for expanding your circle, with advice from sociable people. By Laura Regensdorf Laura Regensdorf lives in Brooklyn with her hound mix, Pina, who has turned out to be a great ...

Imagine being in a rock band. If you made a new friend who said he wanted to sing with you on stage, would you make it happen, or would you turn him down? In this story, one woman is in this exact ...

Do you have a group of neighbors you play cards with each week? Or maybe you belong to a hiking club, have a regular coffee date with friends, or sing in a local choir. We don’t need to tell you that ...