DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 86-year-old male in relatively good health. I developed pain in my lower back, buttocks and upper legs that started a couple of months ago. It is particularly painful in the morning when I arise and subsides some as I work through the pain and get going through my ...
Dear Heloise: You had a letter from a woman who complained that geography isn't being taught in schools nowadays. It is a subject that has always interested me, and I was lucky to study it in school. Also, my mother bought my sisters and me a jigsaw puzzle of the United States. The capital city ...
Today is Monday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2024. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool's Day. Today's Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players' strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on April 1, 1992, the National Hockey ...
In the mystical card deck known as the tarot, there is a card named "The Fool" featuring a plucky youth carrying his belongings on a stick over his shoulder. The blithe spirit has a blossom in one hand, and his head is tilted up to the sun. It's not an advisable head angle for today, ...
Dear Annie: My longtime friend seems to be outspoken when I'm around her lately. I have a nervous habit of biting my nails, and when my friend is at my house, she yells at me to stop doing that, saying it's disgusting. It made me angry and hurt to be yelled at in my own house, but I only ...
Dear Heloise: My husband was hammering a nail to hang a picture in our home and hit his thumb. It was hard enough (and painful enough) to cause his nail to turn black. He finally got out a small wrench to hold the nail in place while he hammered it in. No more hammering his thumb! -- Christine ...
