of friends? our colleague tiffany cross has at least eight. nine of them just got back from the kind of vacation i wish everyone had a chance to take, myself included. ms. cross was in cabo san lucas, a well-deserved break with group that included jemele hill, voting rights advocate latasha brown, black writes co-founder alicia garza and msnbc s joy reid. she unwound from the daily grind by commiserating and spending at least two minutes looking like the goddess of all things. i mean, really, ma am. this had to have been a lot of fun. but it was clearly more than that. this morning on the cross connection she explained what everybody came away from the trip with. beyonce once said that as much as she loves her husband, there is nothing like a conversation with a woman who understands you. i echo that a million times over. the truth is, it really didn t matter if we convened in cabo or cleveland.