Lifestyles

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have lived in a country home for the past 25 years. When we moved here, our only neighbors were wild turkeys, deer and raccoo...

Dear Heloise: Over the years, I have sent many wedding and graduation gifts in the form of cash tucked into cards. About 1 in 20 gifts resulted in a t...

DEAR RUSTY: I am almost 57, divorced after a 14-year marriage. My former spouse is 15 years older than I and made significantly more money than me. I ...

Dear Heloise: I would like to share an idea I came up with recently — using ID dog tags on horse bridles. It struck me that if a horse gets loose, hav...

DEAR ABBY: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions. It has increasingly gotten on my mom's nerve...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Barb Pace views humor and entertainment as an "elixir." She sees it as a way to disconnect from difficult news, drama and the minut...

Dear Heloise: I have two thermal mugs. One is for coffee, and one is for tea. They can't be used in the microwave or in the dishwasher. To get the sta...

DEAR ABBY: I had a friend, "Mylene," for many years. We swapped dog-sitting to offset the cost for each other. I helped her when she was sick and brok...

Dear Readers: We've received hundreds of letters concerning weddings where the bride and groom want to charge people to attend. Apparently, this is no...

DEAR ABBY: I've been married to a narcissist for 28 years. He has gaslighted me for our entire 30 years together. He has had a "work wife" and a flirt...

DuBOIS — Did you know that approximately 3 million people have contact with a poisonous substance every year? Sadly, many of those are children. Accid...

Dear Heloise: We'll be spending hours wrapping Christmas and Hannukah gifts in a few weeks, using a lot of paper sourced from forest trees that would ...

DEAR ABBY: I'm a twice-divorced woman who has no children. I was raised by two deeply religious parents (now deceased) who attended church every Sunda...

Bradford VFW Post 212 and its Auxiliary have announced the local winners of the 2025-26 Voice of Democracy Scholarship and Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest...

The Varsity Division of the Bradford Businessmen’s Chess League played rounds two and three over the holiday break and the following week. After round...

Dear Heloise: I read your column in the Arizona Daily Star. I, too, had no idea who was calling me — whether it was a "friend or foe" so to speak. I h...

DEAR ABBY: My daughter won't allow me to have a relationship with my toddler grandson without constantly interfering. Everything is "no." She says thi...

DEAR ABBY: I am a teacher. I love my job, and I love my students. However, as I near the end of my 26th year of teaching, there's something I need to ...

Dear Heloise: I'm a longtime reader of your column in the Daily Breeze, in Torrance, California, and I have a hint that I'd like to pass along: I have...

DEAR ABBY: I'm a man in my 70s. My girlfriend is eight years younger. We were first introduced 42 years ago by relatives who believed we would be a go...