From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Susan told me she and Beth were friends. “Not the everyday, check-in-with-each-other kind of friends,” she said. “But the every-couple-of months kind. Where you see each other and it’s as if no time at all has passed. You just pick up your last conversation and are comfortable together for an hour or an evening or [...]

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Study Dates Then and Now

by Barbara Hartsook on June 10, 2010 · 16 comments

in Conversation Over Coffee

First the Library… My husband’s and my first dates were study dates at our university library, an old brick structure with high ceilings and tall windows. We climbed a dozen concrete steps to enter through massive, ornate, wooden double doors. Once those doors closed behind us, they shut out all sounds but our footfalls echoing [...]

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