Issue #15: How to stay close when your friends start having kids

We interviewed each other on what it takes to maintain a relationship

In summer 2020, deep in COVID, my friend Suz texted me, “Would it be cool if I invited Blake’s friend Aja¹ to book club?” 

“Please!” I wrote back immediately. 

Our remote book club was one of the high points of COVID: a way to stay connected while we stayed at home. Each month, for nearly a year, a rotating cast of friends and friends of friends talked, la…