friendship Archives - The Grassy Road

Exec friendships are hard too

There was a terrific article in the New York Times this week on how very hard it it to make friends over 30. The discussion is buzzing and comments are flying. Clearly lots of people feel the pain of forming deep friendships once they have kids, and a job, and all the time conflicts that prevent us putting the time in to form deep friendships that seemed so much easier in college and pre-kids. But it also got me thinking about how much harder it is to make friends when [...]

30 years and counting

Hard to believe that Bret and I have been married 30 years now. It seems like so very long, and yet the blink of an eye. If you had told me 30 years ago that in 30 years we would have moved to America, raised two young adults, remodeled 4 houses (3 with our own hands), had lots of great dogs and cats, spent plenty of time on and in the water in the sun, worked too hard, run our own companies, loved each other, liked each other, and disliked [...]