Advice How To Really Make Friends As An Adult
A simple guide to making new friends later in life.
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Cartoons & Comics Blessings for City Life
Assorted heartfelt and nonreligious good wishes for city dwellers.
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice on Travel Anxiety and Bigoted Relatives
Aunt Acid advises a correspondent who is anxious about traveling with a friend, and another trying to cope with bigoted family members.
Race What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism
On casual racism in otherwise polite company, and the split-second deliberations that go into deciding how to respond in a no-win scenario.
Personal Stories Jewel Key: Friendship and Escape in the Everglades
"There will be ocean in your eyes and summer on your skin and your mouth will pucker for days, pickled from saltwater."
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Dealing with a Difficult Roommate
Aunt Acid offers some advice to a reader at their wit's end with a roommate.
A Letter to Rora
"Dear Rora: I love you, and so I am letting you go."
Things That Are Not Our Friends
Brands are not our friends. Politicians are not our friends. Our parents are not our friends. Our friend’s parents are not our friends, no matter how many times they invite you over even after your friend moved out. Bosses are not our friends. Coworkers are not our friends. Mary in HR is not our friend. …
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Supporting Creative Friends
The Toast's Aunt Acid counsels a reader who wants to know how to be a good friend to those creative and artistic types.
Family Friendship and Race and Knowing Your Place
On racism and friendship, and when and where to draw lines.
Food The Chestnut Roast: An Excursion
Julia Zarankin, on venturing into new territory to attend a chestnut roast, and hoping to make friends.
