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 ...
The 428,000 net new jobs last month in the Labor Department’s Friday report is mildly encouraging since every major industry added workers. But the report also contains a warning that inflationary pressure may be starting to hurt the labor market.
Last week a man asked why we were running stories in the paper that people in western Oklahoma “darn sure don’t agree with.”
Dear Editor,
One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president's son, with no obvious sources of income, manages to maintain a grand lifestyle. For the last year or so, he has been living in a $20,000-a-month rental house in Malibu, Calif. (The taxpayers are footing the bill for the Secret Service to pay even more, $30,000 a month, to rent the house next door while
So here are my qualifications for critiquing a study of canine behavior. Some years ago, my wife and I kept eight beagles in our backyard. Too many, she decided. Something needed to be done.
All but lost in the cacophony of the news of last week – continued fighting in Ukraine, continued economic worries, continued strife over abortion – were three of the most important sentences of the season. They came at the end of a 1,300-word speech that began "Happy Sunday!" and addressed a remarkable range of subjects from fishing to religious faith to what the speaker described as "a macabre regression of humanity."
Dear Doctors: I switched to a new doctor, and she wants me to get a bunch of blood tests. One is a blood test called an A1C. She says it's for diabetes, but I already know I'm not diabetic. I don't need insulin, and sugar doesn't bother me. Are all of these tests really necessary?