CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 40 YEARS AGO
Dear Doctors: My niece and nephew, ages 5 and 9, will be living with my wife and me this year. We have a good pediatrician for their vaccinations and checkups. What other health-related tasks should we be thinking about?
DEAR HARRIETTE: I’m afraid my past embarrassing moments will make my boyfriend see me in a different light. I’ve been dating “Bryan” for two years now, and he is insisting on coming to my hometown to meet my friends, as I have met his. We both live in the city where we work, but I grew up as an overweight kid in a low-income household with neglectful parents.
The Republican Party had something of a nervous breakdown after the 2012 election, when GOP challenger Mitt Romney lost to incumbent President Barack Obama. Some Republicans had convinced themselves that the multitude of polls showing Obama ahead were “skewed.”
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DEAR HARRIETTE: I’m a 45-yearold man, and I thought I had finally married the love of my life just six months ago. My husband and I share many of the same values, dreams and goals, and I was overjoyed to have found someone I could build a future with. We dated for eight months prior to our marriage, but since getting married, he has started to change his personality. I don’t think my husband actually loves me anymore. At first, I dismissed the red flags, convinced that I was overthinking things, but now it feels like the truth is staring me in the face. He’s distant and emotionally unavailable, and it feels like his affection is conditional and only present when I’m providing something for him. The more I reflect on our relationship, the more I’ve started to believe that he didn’t marry me for love at all, but for my financial stability.
Of two appalling sex crimes currently in the news, one strikes me as entirely predictable, the other so bizarre as to make one question how it could possibly have happened in a civilized country. In this I differ from Elizabeth Spiers, an opinion writer in The New York Times, who asserts that both demonstrate that “viewing women as subhuman and inferior is not just tolerated in much of American culture; it’s an integral part of it.”
• It may still be warm outside, but here’s a plan-ahead tip for the cold winter months: Invest in an electric snowblower. New electric snowblowers utilize rechargeable batteries, so there’s no gas tank to fill, and there are no greenhouse emissions released when it’s in use. This is also the perfect solution for smallscale snow removal. Of course, the greenest snow-removal system is a shovel and broom – but if you need a snowblower, go electric.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I’m having a hard time controlling my shopping habits. I often find myself buying things on impulse, which leads to regret afterwards. I want to take better care of my money, but breaking the habit of spontaneous spending seems really challenging.
DEAR HARRIETTE: For the past few years, I have been getting together for dinner with a few other women with whom I used to work. When the first woman left for a new job, another woman started a text group so we can all stay in touch. That same woman would organize a dinner a few times per year. That was basically the only communication among the group. None of us work together anymore, and I have been away from that company for a couple of years.