Are You Lonely? Join These Women for a Walk in the Park

Since last summer, a start-up in beta mode has been soliciting volunteers to take part in 55-minute sessions called “gathers,” where strangers discuss their deepest hopes and fears. The fledgling company, Peoplehood, is led by the entrepreneurs Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, who combined sweat and spirituality in their last venture, the high-end ... See more

A walk-n-talk works like this: gather 5-10 curious, kind, generous, patient, inspiring people and set a walking course through the countryside for a week, plus or minus a day or two. A week works well because it may take a day or two or three for people to open up, for the so-called “situational extroverts” to fully emerge from their shells, for th... See more

There was something freeing about spending time alone with other women and allowing our own standards and definitions to flourish. Why would we go out at all when the people we were most excited to talk to were willing to walk to our house in a pair of leggings and stop by a corner store for a bottle of $6.99 Syrah and a bag of Tostitos along the w

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Breakfast Club is an accidental community that I started in 2021 just by going to the same restaurant for breakfast every Wednesday and saying, hey, I'm going to be there. You're invited. Come hang out. You don't have to RSVP. You don't have to tell me you're coming. You don't have to buy a ticket. You don't have to show up with a set of opinions o... See more

these days, the art of hanging out seems to be waning in cities.