From Handwritten Cards to Hashtags: How We Show Up for Friends Has Changed — Or Has It?

From Handwritten Cards to Hashtags: How We Show Up for Friends Has Changed — Or Has It?

My mother has always been the sort to cry at old songs and tear up at family dramas on TV. She fusses over everyone like it’s second nature. But that evening, she didn’t shed a tear. She sat by the window when the news came — Ritu, her best friend from school, had lost her husband. For a long second, her hand stilled over the phone, like the weight of 25 years had settled in her palm. And then, without a word, she began to dial a number she hadn…