friendship Archives - Darcy Wiley

Sense of Taste: Words to Say and Not to Say When Your Friend Is Sick with Covid-19

by Darcy Wiley | Nov 23, 2021 | Kindness, Relationships, Sickness

It’s a precarious thing to tell people you’re sick in bed with Covid-19. We’ve read the concerns from every point of view. We’ve seen the sometimes thoughtful but many times passive aggressive or just plain aggressive social media posts. Some people think...

AN UNFILLABLE CHAIR: GRIEVING THE LOSS OF A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP FORMED ON MY BALCONY

by Darcy Wiley | Nov 12, 2021 | Grief, Relationships, Spiritual Formation

Every Tuesday, Jacquie Reed pulled into my driveway, shuffled up my steps with her blue canvas bag over her arm filled with scraps of paper, artwork, and her file folder, and spent an hour and half with me sharing both sorrow and beauty as we worked through her essays...

When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Bars

by Darcy Wiley | Jan 10, 2015 | Buttons & Thread, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

This holiday season, we were singing the “Twelve Days of Sickness” instead of the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” What started in mid-December with puke buckets and snot rags continued all season long and made us wonder if Christmas would happen...

Be More than a Comment at the Bottom of a Post

by Darcy Wiley | Jan 15, 2014 | Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

{Psst! Registration for (in)RL opens today!} It was like I was peeking through a slat in the fence, watching these would-be friends with boards and nails and hammers in the yard, their words building up a space for women to belong. I read their stories on the...

Friend or Faux? {A Less Digital Life…Day 9}

by Darcy Wiley | Oct 9, 2013 | A Less Digital Life, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

This afternoon, I pulled into a parking space for a quick lunch before heading to the craft store. It was a beautiful autumn day…blue sky, white puffy clouds, a cool breeze sifting through the blushing leaves. I had just rolled the windows down and crunched into...