Tomorrow I’m headed off to San Francisco to spend the weekend at the beach with ten plus fabulous friends.  It’s an annual event.   We call ourselves the Stinson Beach Babes.  Each year I go, I return home with aching cheek muscles from all the talking and laughing.  Our friendships go back some 30 years.  Back when we were newly married career gals just starting our families and hoping it was true that we could have it all.  It doesn’t surprise me then that a new book about female friendships is striking a chord with a lot of women.  The folks at Earlyword reported that The NY Times most emailed story this week is What Are Friends For? A Longer Life which mentions the book and focuses on research that shows people with close friends do better at fighting illness and depression, have speedier recoveries, and age slower.  Read my review of the book.

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