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Best way to make new friends is to be a friend   Posted5/6/2021 11:33 AM A preteen asked me one of those "theres no easy answer to this one" questions the other day. "How do you make friends?" I wasnt exactly an expert at making friends when I was her age. In fact, I dont think I really figured it out until I got into my mid-30s. Im not even that sure Ive figured it all out now. But since it was a serious question, it deserved a serious answer, so I thought about it a bit.   It seem...

Love is a word often overused, but seldom understood   "Will I ever love the way I used to?" This question gets asked by many of the couples I work with in marriage counseling. One spouse or the other recognizes that he or she feels little, if any, of the love which was felt early on in the relationship.   What is love? It certainly is a word we use frequently. We can love Chicago-style hot dogs, our new car, a movie star, a place, etc. and then use the same word to describe the dee...

Express News Service Titled Oddity: Don’t Bend, Don’t Blend, a calendar featuring six people with disabilities was launched recently to spread awareness about disability and raise funds for organisations working for the betterment of people with disabilities. Conceived by photographer Rishab Dahiya and his friend Purva Mittal, who has a neuromuscular genetic disorder known as Spinal Muscular Atrophy, characterised by weakness and wasting (atrophy) in muscles used for movement (skeletal musc...