Friendship bracelet tattoos

Tattly, the Brooklyn-based collection of temporary tattoos, just came out with friendship bracelets! Designed by Julia Rothman, each $5 pack comes with two: one for you and one for your buddy.

P.S. Thank you so much for your sweet comments yesterday. It was so fun to share the news with you:)

Mindy Kaling on friendship

Did you guys watch The Mindy Project this week? I was laughing out loud through the entire episode. If you haven't yet seen it, sneak away from your desk and watch it right now.

New York Magazine wrote a profile on Mindy a while back, and this paragraph has stuck with me: "My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I’ve ever had in my life," Mindy tells me...But her voice breaks when she starts talking about how she sat down with a pen and paper and asked her mother to give her all the advice she could possibly give her before she died, and Kaling realized she’d never be able to ask her mother for advice again. “I said to her, ‘Mom, I’m going to be so lonely without you.’” She’s crying now but keeps going. “And she just said, ‘You have to be your own best friend. If you always remember that, you will always have someone there with you.’”

P.S. Did you know that Mindy Kaling's real name is Vera Chokalingam?
P.P.S. Who's secretly in love with Danny Castellano?

Friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." —C.S. Lewis

P.S. Making friends as an adult.

Friendship tip: 5-minute phone calls

Do you have any long-distance friends? My friends Clare and Brooke live in California, and I find that we never talk on the phone anymore because, as much as we want to, we just can't find time to sit down for those long and involved catch-up conversations.

Well, my friend Kendra told me a genius idea that other day. She and her best friend live far apart, so they made a rule that they will talk for five minutes at a time. If the call goes longer, fine; but if they have to hang up (to go to work, comfort a baby, eat dinner), then it's totally cool. Not every call has to be a deep conversation. They can just ring and say, "I'm getting my haircut today, any advice?" or "What cute things is your baby doing?" and chat quickly and hang up. Now they enjoy these little calls all the time and are in close touch.

Brilliant! Do you still talk to your friends on the phone? Or just text?
P.S. Making friends as an adult.

(Top photo from I Love Lucy)