DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old woman who is active and healthy. I recently had an endoscopy, and the findings were a hiatal hernia of about 5 centimeters with some inflammation. I have been having almost daily acid reflux episodes. The gastroenterologist put me on a regimen of 40 mg of ...
Dear Heloise: I just found a way to use the address labels that nonprofits send you for donating to their charities. I recently moved to a retirement village and had to change my address. Since I don't write many checks, I failed to realize that I still had lots of preprinted checks that list ...
Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2025. There are 354 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim the Grand Canyon as a national monument; it would become a national park in 1919. Also ...
Anyone who has fixed their heart on something that didn't pan out knows the feeling of having it pull away, taking the plug with it as joy slips down the drain. Having a working knowledge of the phenomenon tends to make people more careful about where they hang their hopes. The moon at odds ...
Dear Annie: I am in a quandary. My husband (67) and I (65) are both retired; I do work from home two days a week for around seven hours or so a week now. He takes Social Security while I do not. He had no 401(k) to speak of. Me working now was to make up the difference. My problem is my ...
Dear Heloise: I have always travelled extensively and have a shoebox full of postcards that I have collected but never sent. I send them now to friends and relatives in assisted living facilities and also to my grandchildren. Both groups love getting mail. I even buy old postcards at thrift ...
