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Bloomberg.com. I've been thinking a lot recently about friends and friendship.

I turned 40 a couple weeks ago, and many of my close friends from high school and college of the same age have also celebrated this milestone in the last few months.

So the past year has had more opportunities to connect with old friends and close friends who live hundreds or thousands of miles away.

And these reunions are always wonderful.

But as you get older, I think there's an undercurrent of sadness or wistfulness that comes through,

as you recognize how hard it is to keep the candle of old friendships truly alive as middle life takes over.

I think about my own daily calendar. I have two young kids, two and six months old, and that

means my typical day begins around 6.30, making breakfast and coffee, pulling together the

toddler's lunch and backpack before getting her to daycare.

By 8.30, I'm at work.

With two podcasts per week, plus a newsletter, plus maybe the occasional speech,

I am pretty much book solid between 830 and 5.

And then the second that clock hits 5,

I am back on the road picking up the toddler, getting her home,

and then as parents of young kids surely understand,

the next two hours are just a blur, a very loud blur. It's feeding and cleaning and wrangling,

negotiating. Honey, eat your potatoes, but I don't want potatoes. I want cheese hits. No, darling,

cheese hits are not, a dinner food, but I want them, and so on. And then it's on to bath time,

onto bedtime, which is its own multi-stage adventure.

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