Dear Miss Manners: A friend of my boyfriend posted a years-old photo of a bunch of their friends, and she tagged one person as a way of saying “happy birthday” to them.

"My mom thought she was babysitting," her daughter, Hannah, told Newsweek. "They hadn't seen each other in years." ...

This essay is a part of Companion Fare, a series of personal stories about nonromantic love and travel.

The streets—still, quiet, gray—revealed no hint that the weekend had arrived. I wondered if the city had inhaled the energy ...