Finding Time for Friends

Friendship is on my mind this week.

Reason #1: I'm reading Jefferey Zaslow's The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship.

Reason #2: My birthday earlier this week meant friends old and new were sending cards, e-mail wishes and texts. I even received a phone call from my longtime friend Heather (whom I met in kindergarten).

Reason #3: My friend Kristin and I are sneaking away this afternoon for an early showing of Sex and the City. The release of the movie is being...