Works For Me Wednesday: Keeping in Touch

Last May, following a weird conflagration of life events, three of my closest girlfriends left town in the space of a month (seriously, guys…was it something I said?). We’re spread out all over the country now. It’s rare we find ourselves all in the same place at the same time (even if that “place” is iChat), and we’ve had to get creative about keeping in touch.

 

One thing that’s been working well for us is a sort of Sisterhood of the Traveling Scrapbook—a spiral notebook that gets sent from chick to chick and filled with all kinds of ephemera, the bits and bobs that make up our lives now.

 

As the book has meandered from place to place it’s gotten thick with movie stubs, a recipe for flourless chocolate cake, a most excellent summer playlist, book recommendations, stories, polls, letters, jokes, receipts, photos, and a hundred other odds and ends, all of which are really just a way of calling out to one another across the miles:

 

Hi, guys.

 

I miss you.

 

But for now, this works for me.