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DEAR READERS: I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Christmas is a very busy time of year filled with strong emotions both happy and sad. The joy and the arguments can each feel louder. Some of you woke up to wrapping paper everywhere, excited kids, pets ...

DEAR HELOISE: My observations with top sheets having unwanted creases in the wide top hem is that they are more readily rectified if the sheet has not yet been used or washed. This way, the unwanted crease fold does not start to wear thin. If the crease comes back after the sheet gets wet, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: When I was about 6 years old in the early 1940s, my 16-year-old brother was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He was there for 18 months and was a survivor. During this period of time, we (the family) went regularly for chest X-rays and some kind of test that ...

The Blackwood convention, correctly used, is extremely valuable in bidding or avoiding slams. It is especially important in hands where the number of aces is the key to how many tricks can be made. Assume you’re South in this deal, which occurred in a tournament, and partner opens one club. ...