DEAR HARRIETTE: My fiance has a large group of friends. I do not have many friends at all, so I was hoping to skip having a bridal party altogether. My fiance is disappointed by this because he was excited to be able to have all of his friends be a part of our wedding. I understand, but I just don't have enough friends to match his groomsmen, and it honestly makes me feel bad. Am I being unfair by asking that we skip the bridal party tradition? – Short Guest List
Is this the time to look to the past for a reason not to be stuck in the past?
As the Congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6, 2020, insurrection paused for a summer recess, Rep. Liz Cheney insisted: “Every American must consider this: Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?”
My husband, Peter, and I are back in our little place in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Of course, it is not really "our" place. We don't own it and have no desire to own anything here larger than a pressure cooker (yes, Peter bought one). When we arrived, Pepe at the front desk said, "Welcome home!" in English, and that is exactly how it felt: as if we had been away from home and were now returning.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I went to college orientation with my son, and he ran into a few students from his high school. He immediately began to talk to them, and at the same time, he completely ignored me. He did not introduce me to them or anything. When I asked him to introduce me, he told me it felt awkward because he knew the name of only one of the students. I explained to him that he could figure out a way around that by simply stating that I am his mother and saying my name. He could add that he went to high school with these students, but saying nothing at all was rude. He seemed flabbergasted by it. I'm dumbfounded now. I have been teaching him manners his whole life. How could he think that it's OK to ignore his mother when I'm standing right next to him? How do I remedy this? – Dissed Mom
Today’s Clinton Daily News honors and puts the spotlight on our older readers. And with good reason. Discrimination in any form is simply heinous, but when people look down upon or worse, try to take advantage of the elderly, then that gets our ire up really quick.
Recently, this column focused on the Biden administration’s practice of allowing illegal border crossers to stay in the United States. Documents made public as a result of a lawsuit over border policy revealed just how many illegal crossers the administration has admitted into the country.
The first images from NASA's James Webb telescope offer wondrous glimpses into stars and planets billions of light years away: in what is truly a space opera, the telescope shows them being born and dying, and cosmic material being sucked into black holes.
The view from Maine is summertime lovely, the sunshine shimmery, the sky the sort of nautical blue you never see even a quarter-mile from the shore. A solitary sailboat, bouncing on flukey breezes, creases the ocean. It is July, the month of our national holiday, and much of the nation is on holiday.
Dear Doctors: There is some folklore that diet pop is bad for you. I gave up sugar and most carbohydrates to help with weight and A1C control, but I continued to drink diet cola. What do the actual studies – ones that are not from biased sources and are peer-reviewed – say about diet cola?