Q. Lots of people suffer with hemorrhoids, and I’d like to offer advice from personal experience. Ditch the wet wipes and toilet tissue for cleaning your butt after a bowel movement. Purchase a simple bidet toilet seat. After it rinses you off, just pat dry gently with toilet tissue. This ...

DEAR HELOISE: I sympathize with Sarah; the new appliances are not what we are used to. I’m still missing my old Maytag Neptune washer! The new energy-efficient ones are OK, but I found that for deeper water, after finally reading the manual, I have to use the “deep fill” setting by ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 79-year-old female. Recently, I was diagnosed with moderate calcification of leaflets on my mitral valve. I have no symptoms but heard from a recent talk that even moderate calcification could indicate surgery. I was taking a D3 supplement but have now stopped. Would ...

The suit-preference signal has many applications. In its classic form, it is used by a defender on lead to tell his partner which of two side suits to return after the lead has been ruffed. The mechanism is quite simple: If the leader prefers to have the lower-ranking side suit returned, he ...

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After the winter we have had, (snow, cold, ice, etc.) it is so exciting to look for the spring ephemerals — those little flowers that spring up one day and show off beautiful flowers. In Ohio, there are several native species that grow as the ground warms up, blooming from a few days to a ...