What to pack (and what food to buy!) for a beach weekend away with friends to have a successful trip!

Tips for staying connected with your new mom friends.

A tribute to Rich Colli, the owner of Varga Bar and a true community builder, gone too soon in the City of Brotherly Love.

An ode to work friends - you are the best.

A thought piece on how enjoying and sharing beverages can be a key piece of building relationships and feeling like you belong.

Consider starting a morning coffee meet-up if you’re craving community in your life. Inspired by Radha Agrawal’s book, Belong.

A how-to guide to write your own quarterly newsletter to stay in touch with your friends and family on a more consistent basis.

How to stay friends with your friends who just had children, a guest post by Andy Shaw of Instafather.

An essay about how to balance staying in touch with the people in your life and your own self care.

Seven steps to explain how to bring different groups of people together to minimize awkwardness.

8 places to look for information to put on your holiday year-in-review cards how to choose what to put on it.

Tips to make your guests more comfortable when they stay at your house including what conversations to have ahead of time.

101 PG13 Never Have I Ever Questions

A sponsored post by Compendium. How I used their pop-open cards in handmade valentines to add a special treat.

5 Great Icebreaker Games for your next Party or Work Event

A stream of consciousness about making last-minute plans.

An overview of how I made 13 “I think you’re cool” cards after meeting new friends at a blog conference.

A list of tips to host a monthly dinner party series with your friends.

Using classroom Valentines from Minted as my Valentines Day cards with special handmade envelopes and boy band quotes.

Tips for making handmade holiday cards with stamps from Hero Arts.