Dear Heloise: I live in one of the last houses on my street that still receives a daily newspaper, and I always enjoy reading your column in the Orange County Register. Even though we hardly ever get ...

Picture a nest, with a mother bird feeding three younger ones. Only she has no worms or bugs in her beak. Rather, she is filling them with the calls and movements of her avian experience, the essence ...

• Barbara G., in Houston DEAR HELOISE: We adopted Lukas three years ago, and he has brought us such joy! He knows what time it is for dinner as he jumps on my lap and stares at me. He knows to run to ...