August 14, 2012 / Last updated : August 13, 2012 M.A. Brotherton Blog

Diary of a Bad Friend

I’m a bad friend. It’s true. Try as hard as I can to be better, I still constantly feel like I’m letting a good friend down. The truth is, one of my friends needs someone to lean on pretty heavily, and I don’t know how to be that person anymore. I used to be good […]

July 25, 2012 / Last updated : August 28, 2015 M.A. Brotherton Blog

A Request for Help

I’m not good at this sort of thing… My friend has Ovarian Cancer. You may remember a little while back that I took a moment to mention her surgery and wish her luck. Fortunately, the surgery seems to have been good. She seems to be recovering. Unfortunately, someone, way up in the corporate […]

April 17, 2012 / Last updated : August 28, 2015 M.A. Brotherton Blog

Good Luck Sara! Pink and Teal Day!

I’ve never been good when Bad things happen in life. I’m not very reliable, emotionally or otherwise. Wednesday, my friend will have surgery. She tells the story herself on her blog Domestic Type. Pink is her color, and teal is the awareness color for Ovarian Cancer. So, I know it’s short notice, but I’m hoping […]

February 11, 2011 / Last updated : February 11, 2011 M.A. Brotherton Blog

Somewhere to Sit

I don’t like to talk about my childhood. Most of it has been burned from my memory by the fires of time, and what remains even is a little cloudy. I’m not sure how much of it is accurate and how much is reconstructed from the stories told to me or by me. I spent […]

January 23, 2011 / Last updated : January 23, 2011 M.A. Brotherton Blog

Friendship in a New Age

I used to think that as we got older, we changed the definition of friendship. For young kids, a friend is just about anyone you meet that hasn’t been mean to you yet. In high school, your friends are the people that you can stand for the longest period of time. In college, a friend […]

January 15, 2011 / Last updated : January 15, 2011 M.A. Brotherton Blog

The New Age of Friendship and the Twitter Hivemind

Are we all too connected? The hivemind that we call Twitter is growing everyday, pulling more and more of us into its tangled skein of public thought diarrhea. We connect to each other through our computers and phones, in a way that we’ve never really done before. Some of us take it for granted, and […]