I love hearing from my girlfriends. Updates on their lives and their family, job, pets and social activities. I love knowing what they’re up to and how they spend their time. I feel closer to them just knowing their schedules, their shopping finds, funny things their kids do/say. Even if, like today, it is a stressful update of a child in need of a miracle, I at least know what’s going on and will keep her family in my thoughts and prayers. Any update from a girlfriend just helps me connect with them and I love that.

So, in an effort to reciprocate, here’s the update from Girlfriendology Headquarters (aka: my very cold basement home office!):

1. The new podcast is posted with the December Contest Winners. Listen in for great stories on being thankful for Girlfriends – you’ll be inspired. They share so openly and express their girlfriend appreciation. And congrats to the winners of the contest prizes! (But, aren’t you all winners?!) Enter the January contest and take your girlfriend out for Starbucks on Girlfiendology!

2. I spoke this weekend with Dr. Karen Gail Lewis, a respected psychologist on relationships. She is amazing! She’s written books (like her latest, With or Without Men: Single Women Taking Control of their Lives), conducts Unique Retreats for Women, etc. We’ll interview her for the podcast on Valentine’s Day but I wanted to make you aware of a special teleseminar (for single women) she’s giving THIS WEEK! Check out her web site for all the details!

3. And finally, this time tomorrow evening I’ll be on a plane for Frankfurt (then on Friday will take the train to Paris). As much as I’m thrilled to be going (I love travel and especially international travel – on an expense account!), I would much, MUCH rather be going with a girlfriend (or two, or three!). I’ll try to check in via the blog from the road but will have to see if WIFI is easily accessible in Europe.

So, I won’t be on the blog much in the coming week but I’d love if you’d still read, comment, share, forward, spread the word on Girlfriendology. It is a wonderful world – so much so because of the women who bless our lives. Thanks for making it a wonderful world for me!

And, because I just found it and it seems to fit my journeys and love of girlfriends, here is a quote from an old issue of O magazine on friendship:

“For happiness she required women to walk with. To walk in the city arm in arm with a woman friend (as her mother had with aunts and cousins so many years ago) was just plain essential. Oh! Those long walks and intimate talks, better than standing alone on the most admirable mountain or in the handsomest forest or hay-blown field (all of which were certainly splendid occupations for the wind-starved soul). More important even (though maybe less sweet because of age) than the old walks with boys she’d walked with as a girl …” Grace Paley

Thanks girlfriends! Bonjour!

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