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I know stuff about fly fishing

As you read this, I have successfully moved from being a sexagenarian to being a septuagenarian. One definition of my new designation is that “I am now in an age of decreased mobility.” ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Flies & Lies

Loving baseball, even in the season of heartbreak

Former Major League Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti once wrote about America’s pastime: “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in t...

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Bride-to-be plans walk down the aisle after dad’s death

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I are talking marriage soon, and I’m already stressing about who will walk me down the aisle. I always planned for it to be my dad, but he passed ...

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Trump, who doesn’t drink, goes on another bender

WASHINGTON – President Trump, in the Rose Garden on Monday morning to celebrate a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, displayed a side seldom, if ever, seen before: a flash of self-awaren...

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Trump, who doesn’t drink, goes on another bender

WASHINGTON – President Trump, in the Rose Garden on Monday morning to celebrate a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, displayed a side seldom, if ever, seen before: a flash of self-awaren...

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Mom’s wild stories cause her grandchildren distress

DEAR ABBY: My mother insists on telling my three youngest children that my husband is not their father. The oldest girl is the spitting image of him, and she’s upset about it. Mom also c...

DATE: Oct 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Long-married couple wonders if being ‘swingers’ is for them

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for years. We married young, and I’m the only man she has been with. Although we seem to have a good sex life, she’s now saying she wants more....

DATE: Oct 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Are you too busy to eat healthy?

I get it – you’re busy, I’m busy, we’re all busy. It’s almost as if the word ‘busy’ has become a badge of honor for us to feel like we’re important. But this busyness can be disastrous to yo...

DATE: Oct 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

We saw two human beings flayed – and for what?

WASHINGTON – In the end, everything – every blasted thing – gets sucked into the polarization black hole, never to emerge again. That now includes the U.S. Supreme Court. It is no...

DATE: Oct 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

America’s role in Yemen’s misery is outrageous

The news about Brett Kavanaugh is addictive, but spare just a moment for crimes against humanity that the United States is supporting in far-off Yemen. President Donald Trump didn...

DATE: Sep 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

A year abroad helps to define more clearly who you are

We are back in the United States. By living in another country, we opened a door that can never be closed. We will be forever changed. This is what I wanted for me and my kids – ...

DATE: Sep 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: An American in Spain

Beware: Drip pricing is designed to get you to pay more

The quoted rate for an “amazing” three-bedroom condominium in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, looked too good to be true. The unit, which featured flat-screen TVs, beds with “lush, warm comforters,” a...

DATE: Sep 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter