Two winters ago, more than a year after my old college roommate and dear friend Paul was diagnosed with ALS, he started ...

The absence of a “Santa Claus rally” does not doom the U.S. stock market in 2025. The period from Christmas through the second trading day of January marks the traditional definition of the ...

Richard Deyo traveled the world for many years, walking and hitchhiking across the U.S. and Canada and riding trains in ...

I would appreciate it if you’d consider helping me figure out an answer to a question I am so tired of being asked, which is, ...

he set up elaborate Christmas decorations in his home and at church for all to enjoy and for many years he dressed as Santa Claus for children. He was devoted to his grandchildren, a world-class ...

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Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for a long time, and he is a great guy. However, when it comes to my 80-year-old mom, it’s another story. Mom has dementia and says many things ...

His latest studio album Dear Life, now available on CD and vinyl or for online streaming, runs the other direction. On the new record, self-released via his own Laugh A Minute Records in ...

Santa Claus was a no-show on Wall Street for the second year in a row, but stock-market bulls may be able to take their lump of coal in stride if January gets the year off to a positive start.

Everything seemed off. With all the tact of a 20-year-old sibling, I asked him point-blank what was wrong with him, and he angrily went home early. I brought it up with my parents, but they’ve ...

DEAR ABBY: My siblings and I are estranged. I live in a different state. My brother and I never got along and stopped speaking many years ago. My older sister and I, after a long, toxic ...