Friendship
Why you’re happier if you make friends at work
It can be uncomfortable to cross the Rubicon from professional to personal, but it’s usually well worth the effort.
- by Claire Cohen
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Opinion
City life
Put down your phone: Saying hello can be the antidote to loneliness
While we have become more socially connected by our phones and gadgets, we still sadly feel more isolated. Living alone in a foreign country, I know how loneliness feels.
- by Maida Pineda
‘I was taken aback by what he told me’: how two very different men became mates
Filmmaker Ryan Gaskett met Leigh Conkie, a chain-smoking chainsaw sculptor, 10 years ago. An unlikely friendship developed.
- by Robyn Doreian
How to breathe new life into a faded friendship
Connection regret is one of the four main types of regret, but it is possible to rekindle old friendships.
- by Evelyn Lewin
‘I was terrified’: The two mates who bit the bullet and created a gin company
Cameron Mackenzie and Stuart Gregor were thrown together by chance two decades ago and are now connected by work, family and a shared appreciation for kilts.
- by Dani Valent
Opinion
Food
Should you feed child guests dinner? What #Swedengate reveals about food culture
The act of eating is steeped in cultural practice – which is possibly why news on Reddit and Twitter that Swedes don’t feed child guests dinner caused a stir online.
- by Timothy Heffernan
How care packages became the ‘I love you’ of 2022
A 1992 book introduced the world to the concept of love languages. Three decades on, the pandemic has given it new meaning.
- by Gyan Yankovich
Opinion
Diversity
Is there a right way to ask ‘where are you from’?
Humans are inherently fascinated by each other’s walks of life. But for those at the receiving end of these questions, there is often a lack of good manners when people converse about race.
- by Abbir Dib
‘Our jaws dropped’: Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer’s Tuscan adventure set to become a movie
Twenty-five years after Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer set up a cooking school in Tuscany, a film about the experience, and their friendship, is brewing.
- by Karl Quinn
They were offered a ‘trip of a lifetime’ but wound up in an Australian jail
When two American friends – later dubbed the “Drug Grannies” – were offered an all-expenses-paid trip, it seemed like an offer too good to refuse.
- by Sandi Logan
Over time, we realise certain friendships are rare – and very, very precious
People come and go in our lives, but some seemed marked for special relationships.
- by Melissa Coburn