How To Make New Friends As An Adult, And Why

When I was growing up, my best friends were simply the ones most available to me. That's true for most of us, probably--even if we don't realize it at the time. My next-door neighbor Miranda was my closest childhood confidant: She was the cooler, older girl who pretended to be witches with me when we were children, lent me her velour top for the middle-school dance, and taught teenaged me about Alanis Morissette and Fiona Apple and alt-girl angst. She and her art-school friends compelled me to r...