Sherryl Woods | Just Between Friends

When you've lived as long as I have and in as many different places,
maintaining friendships takes a lot more time and energy than it did when I was
a kid and my best friends lived right upstairs and next door in the same
apartment building. Or even when I reached my teens and so many of my friends
were at school or in the same youth group at church or just a few houses away
in the town where I spent my summers. These days they're in Denver and Ohio, in
California and Vermont and even in Egypt. Email makes staying in touch easier,
but there's nothing like sitting in the same room with a cup of tea or a
margarita and talking over old times or current problems, laughing about
whatever strikes us as funny (trust me, the number of things that qualify for
laughter increases as the margaritas flow).