Category Archives: Friends

Does True Love Start with Signing a Yearbook?

I’m still digging out of the mess of stuff I had to send home from my parents’ house over the holidays. There is a lesson here: If you can throw it away, do it. If only I had known that a few years ago. But, there have been some gems from all this stuff. Last [...]

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dear Sarah: How to Make Friends (and Not Worry About Influencing People)

Your Question: I don’t have many friends, and one of my friends moved. I only have a few friends at school. I don’t want to go into the lunch room at school and sit all by myself. What should I do, and how do I make more friends. I want to be more confident, outgoing, [...]

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dear Sarah: To Tell or Not to Tell?

Your Question: I have a friend who just starting going out with this girl. We have become very close friends but I recently found out she has been cheating on him this whole time. Should I be honest with my friend I’ve known forever or not tell him because I don’t want to break his [...]

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Importance of Friendship

Summer can do two things to a friendship – make it stronger (because you have more time to see each other than during the busy school year) OR make it weaker (because you only see each other during the school year). So, in honor of keeping in touch with all your friends (even the ones [...]

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Ask Sarah B – You Ask, I Answer – Questions from Real Teenagers

Here’s your weekly Ask Sarah B sesh. Remember if you want to ask a question and get some advice, you can email me at: AskSarahB@gmail.com Question:My best friend broke up with her boyfriend a few weeks ago and he just asked our other friend to go out with him. And our other friend said yes! [...]

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On the Road Again

It’s sunny in Seattle and I feel so lucky. I lived in Bellevue growing up (the city right across the bridge from Seattle) and it’s not sunny very often. I think the book tour gods are being nice to me. Yesterday was a blast with 2 events in the Seattle area. The first was at [...]

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