Lifestyles

DEAR ABBY: I am a 54-year-old mother of two, a wife and a full-time teacher. My days are long, busy and usually uneventful. Every evening, I am expect...

Dear Heloise: I wanted to write in regarding using newspaper in the sink to catch vegetable peelings so that they don't go down the drain or disposal....

DEAR ABBY: My parents divorced when I was in high school, and Dad kept the house I grew up in. I'm in college across town and have my own place, but I...

Dear Heloise: I live alone and only use my dishwasher a couple times a week. In between washings, I sprinkle baking soda on the bottom of the dishwash...

DEAR ABBY: My husband is going to be 70 next month. He is in good physical shape but has taken up smoking marijuana every day. He says he is addicted....

Dear Heloise: Saved greeting cards are cluttering up my closets — Christmas cards, birthday cards, and Mother's Day cards! I have shoeboxes full of th...

DEAR ABBY: I was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago. After two surgeries and three hospital stays, I recovered. The experience made me realize...

(TNS) — They got married in a hospital. Now the newlyweds are awaiting a heart transplant for the groom. Mallory DeRoss, 39, and Brian DeRoss, 54, sta...

Dear Heloise: As a coffee professional, I'd like to add to the conversation about bitterness in coffee. The No. 1 cause of bitterness is overextractio...

DEAR ABBY: My sister, "Jenny," and I have had a falling-out and no longer speak. She's upset with me because she found out her adult daughter, "Paisle...

DEAR ABBY: I have been a registered nurse for 11 years. I am experienced in hospital floor nursing and clinic nursing, and I have always been well reg...

DEAR ABBY: I'm an older gay male with many gay friends, but I have never come out to family, although I'm confident most of them know or suspect my se...

Dear Heloise: My elbows are clean but dark. I hate it! What can I do to lighten them up? — Ruth, in Minnesota Ruth, first, use a loofah or a stiff bod...

(TNS) — Pittsburghers love their Heinz Tomato Ketchup — but will they love it in smoothie form? For the first time, Heinz fans can get their ketchup i...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — Crystal Rose-Williams, interim vice president of Student Experience, and Jessica Kubiak, vice president of Academic Affairs, announc...

Dear Heloise: I keep a spray bottle filled with isopropyl alcohol that is set to shoot a stream -- not a mist — at any cockroaches I see in my house. ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are blessed with a 6-month-old son, "Tyler." I'm now back at work three days a week. My mother and my mother-in-law offere...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Four area graduates recently received the $10,000 John J. Murphy Family Scholarship managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundati...

(TNS) — Dean Cain rose to fame in the late 1990s for his work in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” The roles have not been quite as prom...

Dear Heloise: Like Carolyn, in Dayton, Ohio, I also like to reuse items. I use the back of greeting cards for lists and notes. They are pretty and eas...