Dear Annie: I'm a 75-year-old widow who has lived in the same little Cape for 43 years. I still do my own shopping, I drive myself to church, and I host Sunday supper when my joints cooperate. I'm not fragile, but I am ... older. And lately, I feel like everyone is determined to treat me like a ...

Dear Heloise: Maybe you can help me. I infer from reading your column in the Omaha World-Herald that you have an affinity for pets. This leads me to ask you what may be an unanswerable question. I'm a widowed nonagenarian who yearns for a cuddly comfort. Although she's been deceased for nearly ...

Wells Lions raffle winner ESCANABA – The $100 winner of the Wells Lions Club’s 52-week raffle for week 28, dated Feb. 9, is Bernice Caron of Escanaba. Historical Society winter outreach ESCANABA - The Delta County Historical Society presents a collection of historical photos on today at ...

Dear Annie: I'm a 42-year-old mom of two. I've been remarried for three years, and I'm trying hard to do the blended family thing with grace. My husband has a 16-year-old daughter, "Mia," who lives with us half the time. Most days are fine, but there's one issue that has turned our home into a ...

Loneliness impacts the lives of many individuals. It seems to ever so slowly creep up and intertwine in our lives. At first, it may go unnoticed until it amplifies and impacts one’s life. It consists of a complex set of feelings, such as deep sadness, emptiness, longing for an emotional ...

Dear Heloise: To the people who prefer reading a physical newspaper, stating that it's just not the same on their laptop, and to those who worry about spilling coffee on the keyboard, I, too, would never read the paper on a laptop. But I now read it on a tablet. My paper offers a PDF of the ...