It's really hard to make (and keep) friends

On male friendship.

My dad didn’t have any friends.

I never realized it when I was young. But as I got older — teen years and beyond — I never saw him go get beers with anyone. Or go to a ballgame. Or take a trip to Vegas or Miami or, well, anywhere.

He mostly hung out with me and my mom. (I am an only child.) He had brothers but by the last 10 or so years of his life, he ha…