Dear Heloise: We recently purchased a 6-by-9-foot rug and pad online. The rug showed up folded tightly inside a small box! We put it on the floor, and after a week, there was no change -- the wrinkles were still there. We rolled it up for a month, and there was only a very small change. We ...
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 1, the 275th day of 2024. There are 91 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 1, 2017, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music ...
Do not doubt that your brain is similar to the brains of other humans, and yet your mind is wired up so uniquely that it would be impossible for another person to have the exact sequence of thoughts and impressions that you experienced in the last hour. In this moment before the new moon, let ...
Dear Annie: I really don't like having my picture taken because I don't feel photogenic. I've asked my husband multiple times not to post any photos of me on his social media without my permission. However, every now and then, he disregards my feelings and posts them anyway. Each time, I remind ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I would like your opinion and advice. I am a very healthy 77-year-old man, and I walk about two miles each morning. Generally, I enjoy one wheat beer every afternoon, and my primary care physician has told me to feel free to continue with it. I've read that moderate drinking can ...
Dear Heloise: As far as hiding a spare house key, I use a double-layer system: My garage key is hidden on my back porch (disguised as a piece of caulk), and this key gets me into my garage, where my house key is hidden. It's a fantastic system. I read your column daily in The Journal Gazette! ...
