Babysitting mother disregards boundaries

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.

Transgender promotion backfiring

President Joe Biden has done more to promote transgender ideology than any president, ever.

Has there ever been a bigger loser

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?

TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.In 1964, antiapartheid activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.In 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in a...

Terminology helps differentiate life stages

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?

Parents ready for adult son to move out

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.

Two candidates, mired in the past

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.”

Woman wants relationship with friend

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.

Asking for help isn’t always a bad thing

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.

Comfort food for the sports soul

Iheard this story from former Sen. Jack Danforth many years ago. An ordained minister, he would occasionally conduct evening services at the National Cathedral, which sits atop the highest point in Washington.