DEAR ANNIE: I am a woman in my early 40s, living several states away from the town where I grew up. My relationship with my parents has always been complicated, especially with my mother, and for the last 25 years I have also been estranged from my older sister. She still lives near my parents, ...

DEAR HELOISE: This is in regard to the reader who says that they don’t understand why people use antibacterial wipes when entering a store and suggests that they only use them on their hands after shopping. The reader obviously doesn’t know that grocery carts can be dirtier than a public ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 69-year-old woman who’s been on different blood pressure medications for a very long time. I was on 20 mg of lisinopril and 5 mg of amlodipine for a while, but my blood pressure spiked to 190/100 mm Hg. My doctor then increased the amlodipine to 10 mg, which brought my ...

Whenever declarer is playing a suit contract, he is faced with the questions of whether or not to draw trump, whether or not to take certain finesses, whether to try to establish a long suit, and so on. Some or all of these things might have to be done, but the order in which they take place ...

WEDNESDAY EVENING TV LISTINGS

For many people, the workday begins and ends in the same position: seated. The modern worker spends hours hunched over keyboards, eyes glued to their monitors and hips locked in a seated position. While most people focus on countering the mental fatigue of a long workday, the physical toll is ...