Dear Annie: I lost my husband 10 years ago. He was a great man, and we had a good marriage for over 30 years. It took me a while (seven years) to date, and when I did, I met a guy who was seven years older than me and twice divorced, but I was very attracted to him, and he was to me. We spent ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Could you kindly tell me about the current status of paregoric? Has it been banned by the Food and Drug Administration? Is it available anywhere in the United States? I remember using this product occasionally as a teenager back in the 1960s. It was a miracle drug for stopping ...

Dear Annie: I have a daughter who hasn’t spoken to me for almost 20 years, though she still maintains contact with her father. My husband and I have been married for 40 years, but our relationship has been extremely difficult for me. I’ve felt trapped in the marriage because I worked as ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: In March 2023, my 94-year-old mother had a shingles episode on the right side of her neck, head, ear and (to a lesser degree) right cheek. The active blisters lasted about three weeks. Since then, she’s been experiencing continued neuropathy that involves itchiness, a sense ...

You don’t have to be a Halloween collector to know the symbols associated with the holiday. And there are a lot of them. Pumpkins are always a favorite, especially carved into jack-o’-lanterns, but anything spooky — witches, spiders, skeletons, monsters, ghosts — fits in. Anything ...

Dear Readers: A great number of you wrote in about abusive partners and how you finally opened up the cage and flew out. Here are two letters that I found especially interesting: Dear Annie: While I respect “Married” for finally leaving her abuser — I’ve been there myself — I ...