If we weren’t in the midst of a hellish travail, it would be interesting to pay attention to who shows up when we’re in some sort of a crisis. For as long as I can remember I’ve known the phrase ...

Curiously, there are three kinds of foul-weather friends. The first two, which I’ll call Types A and B, are inversely related and depict two distinct contrasts to the fair-weather variety. The third, ...

I once had a therapy client, Jake, who introduced me to the curiously paradoxical term, “foul-weather friend.” Always fascinated by the many twists and turns of language, I explored with him the ...