Americans often reflect on Robert Frost's meditation on roads not taken. Today, we might reflect on speeches not given and on truths unspoken.
It's that time of year again. No, I am not talking about bikini season. I'm talking about bunion season. I did not even know I had a bunion until fairly recently and now, every time I start wearing sandals again, I am reminded that I do. I imagine it was growing on the sly for years before my husband, Peter, brought it to my attention.
As a flood of foreigners poured into the United States, a critic called them "generally the most stupid sort of their own nation," and warned darkly, "They will soon outnumber us, (and we) will not, in my opinion, be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious."
DEAR HARRIETTE: I asked my husband to go to therapy with me, and you would have thought I had told him the Earth is flat. He looked at me incredulously and shook his head. He used to go to therapy before we met -- for years! I thought of him as a progressive person, as someone who is proactive about taking care of himself, inside and out. But after we met (many years ago), he said that was that, and he didn't need therapy anymore.
Last night my grandson, Tason Turney, graduated from Clinton High School. Needless to say that made his “pappy,” as he calls me, extremely proud.
President Biden likes to blame inflation on the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine – or, as he says, "Putin's price hike." But the fact is, Biden's own actions, and those of his party, have also contributed significantly to the rise in the cost of living that is making it harder and harder for many Americans to make ends meet. And that rise, in turn, is feeding a terrible pessimism among Americans about the state of the country.
Tariffs are a double-edged sword in trade between countries. When one country imposes tariffs on the other for protectionist purposes, there has seldom, if ever, been a net winner, or net loser.
One question nags at us: Is this a Rich Strike moment?
DEAR HARRIETTE: Not long ago, I ended things with a person I had been in a relationship with for five years. Without a doubt the hardest part of the breakup has been having to re-explain it to all those who knew us as a couple. I am wishing that everybody would mind their business and just assume that I don't want to discuss the details any longer. It is hard reliving something that was so painful for me. My relationship was very public and I understand the curiosity, but I don't want to keep talking about it. How do I handle the questions about my breakup? -- Tired of Explaining DEAR TIRED OF EXPLAINING:
Hello again, dear readers, and welcome back to the monthly letters column. Virusrelated mail, which once required a column of its own, has slowed down. That means we can once again fold those questions in with the general letters. Speaking of which ...