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DEAR ANNIE: Husband’s dream hobby has become nightmare

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DEAR ANNIE: My husband recently bought an old classic car, the kind he has dreamed about since he was 17. He made the purchase after seeing one roaring down Main Street with the top down. It is shiny, loud, impractical and, according to him, “an investment.” According to me, it is a very expensive midlife crisis with chrome bumpers. He found it online after months of searching and drove three hours to see it “just to look.” Naturally, he came home with a bill of sale, a grin on his face and a car that now sits in our garage under a special cover like it is the crown jewels. ...

Most new moms get the baby blues

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Moments after Jenna Carberg gave birth to her daughter, doctors put the baby on her chest. “I felt a disconnect right away,” she recalled. At home, the Orlando, Florida, mom was exhausted and anxious and cried every day. She was eventually diagnosed with postpartum depression — a ...

HINTS FROM HELOISE: Law schools offend against good grammar

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DEAR HELOISE: A recent column of yours appropriately points out how Americans botch both written and spoken English. Over the past 20 years, I’ve noticed that attorneys are offenders against correct English. The standards of law schools have degenerated so badly that many no longer require the law school admission test. The results are students who have a poor understanding of correct grammar. — Mark R., in Upland, California Mark, grammar has changed in this country, and it’s difficult to say how or why. How do the rest of my readers feel about this? Let us know at ...

Tending harmony

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In the insect world of Arthropoda is a special group called Lepidoptera. This group is noted for monarchs, swallowtails and other beautiful and important butterflies. But there is another group within Lepidoptera, the Sphingidae — or hawk moth — family that contains important pollinators ...

Meet the opossum

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With gray, coarse fur, a scaly tail and long snout with a pink nose, the opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is one of our more interesting mammals. According to Cornell University, early descriptions from Capt. John Smith in 1608 refer to it as “An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a tailee like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat. Under her belly she hath a bagge, wherein she lodgeth, carrieth, and sucketh her young”. Originally from our Southern states, it has migrated to every county in Ohio, adapting to our colder climate successfully. With a life span of 2 to 3 years, it has ...