Kappa Delta Sorority, the sponsor of
National Women’s Friendship Day, has compiled a list of ideas for telling our friends how much they mean to us today! I‘ve listed the best of them and added a few ideas of my own:
- Send a short note to your best friends telling them how much they mean to you.
- Send e-cards to five female friends you haven’t spoken to in a month.
- Call a friend and tell her why you are celebrating the day.
- Using email or snail mail, send a photo and short note to a faraway friend.
- Invite a friend to watch the Emmy Awards with you tonight.
- Make plans to cruise TJ Maxx with a friend.
- Go see a movie or make reservations for dinner with a friend.
- Call a friend and arrange to chat today over a manicure appointment.
- Use classmates.com or reunion.com to reconnect with a childhood school friend with whom you've lost contact.
- Send flowers to your mother, sister or other relative who has also been a good friend to you.
- Plan a weekend with your former college roommate in your college town.
- Make plans with a good friend to volunteer at a women's shelter, soup kitchen or child advocacy program.
- Add a quote about female friendship to your autosignature.
- Make a new friend! It's easy - just smile, say hello, and follow-up with coffee.
- Contribute to research on female friendships by filling out the Fractured Friendship Survey.
- Send your friends my previous blog entry on National Women’s Friendship Day.
- Leave a comment on this blog expressing your feelings today to a friend and email her the URL.
by Irene S. Levine, PhD