https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/since-you-asked/Recent content in Since You Asked on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usFri, 29 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/letters/since-you-asked-how-to-make-friends-as-an-adult/Fri, 29 May 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/letters/since-you-asked-how-to-make-friends-as-an-adult/<p><strong>Dear Lorraine,</strong></p> <p>I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina eighteen months ago to be near my daughter and her family after I retired from thirty-one years of teaching art in a middle school in Ohio. I knew starting over would take adjusting. What I didn&rsquo;t expect was how completely lost I would feel about something as basic as making friends.</p> <p>Back in Ohio, I had the same close friends for twenty years. I met them through the school where we taught, or through our kids&rsquo; activities, or they lived down the block and we ended up in each other&rsquo;s driveways enough times that something just took root. I never thought much about how those friendships happened. They just did.</p>