DEAR HARRIETTE: What should I do if my mother is smothering me? My husband and I recently moved closer to my parents because we have two little ones. My daughters are 3 and 4 years old, and I need help with them because my husband and I both work full-time.
Dear Doctors: I retired last fall, and while I do enjoy the free time, I’ve become worried that the loss of mental stimulus will affect my memory. My husband says he heard about a study that showed being physically active helps your memory. Do you know if that’s true?
President Joe Biden has done more to promote transgender ideology than any president, ever. A scroll through the White House archives shows statement after statement, proclamation after proclamation, speech after speech, in which the president praises what he calls the “extraordinary courage and contributions” of transgender Americans.
To hear angry MAGA Republicans tell it, former President Donald J. Trump’s conviction for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records is a shock and an outrage. But how could anybody be surprised? Never mind that the evidence presented to the New York jury was voluminous and pretty much uncontested.
DEAR HARRIETTE: How do I politely kick my son out of the house? My 24-year-old son lives with me and my husband in Phoenix. He recently graduated college and doesn’t want to leave our house, even though he has a job and makes enough money to be able to afford an apartment. He would just have to live a more humble life.
Dear Doctors: When I was in the waiting room at my doctor’s office, I overheard the nurses referring to two of the patients as a “young old” and an “oldest old.” Is this office shorthand, or are these actual medical categories? It sounded disrespectful.
One candidate worried about the country being a “house divided” by slavery but saw a future where “it will cease to be divided.” Another spoke amid the wreckage of the Great Depression, declaring, “I decline to accept present conditions as inevitable or beyond control.” A third said the country required “a new generation of leadership.” And one campaigned for a second term to have a chance of “building a bridge to the 21st century.”
In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a 25-yearold woman, and I want to pursue a relationship with my childhood friend. He and I have been friends since we were 5 years old. We went to the same schools from elementary through college, and now we both live in Boston.
My dad doesn’t like asking for help. He told me this recently when he asked if I could help him put out the dock. His knee was bothering him, and the dock was pulled up on shore at a steep incline. The dock frame was rolled into the water and then the boards of the dock were laid into place. It was a good job for two people and two sets of hands, especially since my dad’s knee is bothering him and he’s been legally blind for a number of years.