Your birthday party will go on, even if you aren’t there. How we’ve all learned to live with friends who cancel.
May 30, 2022 5:30 am ET
Calling off plans at the last minute used to be seen as rude. Now it can feel like a fixture of social life. Christina Dugan skipped her birthday ski trip with friends to Colorado this winter after she spiked a 103 fever. Though she tested negative for Covid-19 and had mostly recovered, the Houston photographer worried that others wouldn’t be OK with her joining. Her friends went ahead without her.
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