Dear Heloise: One serious point about trying to replicate the wide plank floors of early American homes: The wood that you can obtain at a semi-reasonable cost is not the same as the antique stuff. It is of a different quality. It is wetter as it is not well-seasoned and often an entirely ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a healthy 50-year-old woman. I asked my doctor to test me for Lipoprotein(a) after reading about it. My level was high, at 41 mg/dL. My doctor told me that it didn't need to be treated since I don't have any other risk factors for heart disease. When and how should a high ...

Dear Annie: This Thanksgiving I will be meeting my new boyfriend's family for the first time, and I am already a bundle of nerves. His mom is hosting a big traditional dinner at their home, the kind with a perfectly roasted turkey, gravy from scratch and about 10 different side dishes. She is ...

The moon disappears into Scorpio's beautiful shadow and uncertainty settles like fog. Enjoy the mystery of these conditions. They are rare, after all. That's why fog machines were invented -- because there's something cool in the illusion created by this shadowy mist moving through. What we ...