You meet people at work, church, at school, at play and through organizations and activities, but there is an art to developing and maintaining friendships. The Friendship Book is your guide to overcoming the barriers to and reaping the rewards of learning that art.
The Friendship Book provides information on how to make and nurture friendships, how to maintain old friendships after marriage, how to recover from losing a friend, how to identify the obstacles to friendship and how to overcome those obstacles.
Interviews with medical and psychology professional are coupled with touching anecdotes from a wide spectrum of people about the ways in which friendship has affected their lives. Insight is provided into many types of friendship: spiritual, supportive, neighborly, business, companionable. Intimate, nurturing.
Rita Robinson was born on a farm in Ohio, but she has lived in Southern California since age 5. Robinson's reading habits, like her writing choices, prove eclectic with favorite fiction and nonfiction books spanning the classics to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and A Fine Balance, to The Age of American Unreason and The Road. Favorite authors range from Margaret Atwood and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to former columnists Erma Bombeck, Mike Royko, and too many others to name. But since about age 6 she's been a newspaper, book, and magazine hound. In keeping with that, she writes both fiction and nonfiction, mostly derived from curiosity and partly to answer her own questions about life. A quote from Walker Evans given in 1933 at the first one-man photographic exhibition by the new Museum of Modern Art speaks of a writer's life. "Stare, pry, listen, and eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." For now she's working on a fiction book and a travel article. She's available on Facebook and Twitter under Rita Robinson. Rita Robinson's 11 published books include Grand Old Hotels of Southern and Central California, published by Epicenter Press; Survivors of Suicide; When Your Parents Need You; The Palm: A Guide to Your Hidden Potential; Discover Yourself Through Palm Reading; Friends: How to Make and Keep Them; Center of the World: Native American Spirituality; and Exploring Native American Wisdom, all from New Page Books, an imprint of Career Press. Also, The Hands of Health; and Color Your World: Using the Power of Color and Light in Your Life, both published by Newcastle Publishing Inc., and When Women Choose to Be Single, published by IBS Press. Additionally Robinson has edited and provided photograph and graphics for New Page Books, (The Benham Book of Palmistry); and for Rockefeller Publishing (The Naturalist Collector). Her approximate 1,500 published magazine articles, appearing on four continents, include Westways, Los Angeles Magazine, Men's Fitness, Reader's Digest, Cosmopolitan, First for Women, Pro-Trucker, Playgirl, The Acorn, Let's Live, Health Magazine, Trip & Tour, Kiwanis, and Parenting Magazine to name a few. Some of her photo work is included in three of her books, and several magazine articles. She has also conducted writing extension classes and workshops at seven community colleges, taught and lectured at several conferences, including the Maui Writer's Retreat, as well as working as a private writing coach and editor. She has been an instructor with Writer's Digest's WOW since its inception in 2002. She graduated from Valley College, San Bernardino, California, and has attended Cal State University, San Bernardino. Awards include several from the Press Club of Southern California: 1st Place, Feature Story; 1st Place, Freelance Story; Best Layout/Women's Page, Best Series, 1st Place, Lifestyle Feature, Best Series, Best Lifestyle Feature; Best Commentary; Best Review; and Sweepstakes Award, Writing.
This review is from: The Friendship Book: The Art of Making and Keeping Friends (Paperback)
I grew up in an asocial household where my parents didn't have any friends. Here I am, 30, wanting to figure out how to make friends, and not remain in codependent relationship or isolation patterns. This book did a great job explaining why friendships are important to our well-being. Unfortunately, there was definitely room for the clueless (like myself) on how to actually MAKE friends. How do you strike conversation with strangers? How do you turn them into acquaintances? At what point of seeing a person often enough is it appropriate to suggest a private activity? When does an acquaintance turn into a friendship? How do you treat the other person so they are more likely to like you? How do I slowly make friends and keep things there without rushing into a romance with anyone? When and how can I bring a friendship up a notch into a best friendship? Etc. It could have been better.
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There was once a man who traveled to places where he felt people misunderstood him. He went there to show them that he was after all a human being like everybody else. The suspicion that leads to anger and hatred should stop on all sides so everybody can live together in peace. The physical borders that separate one state from another should under no circumstance divide people so that they can live together as one.
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