Dear Annie: When I was a young adult out living on my own, I used to get subscriptions to Christian magazines from my very religious aunt every Christmas. I happen to be an atheist and did not appreciate the magazine, nor did I appreciate all the mailing lists that having a subscription to that ...

Dear Heloise: I recently made a Vietnamese dish that called for white pepper. I had a hard time finding white pepper, though, and was shocked by the price. Why is it so expensive, and where does it come from? -- Charlotte H., Denver Charlotte, white peppercorns come from pepper plant berries ...

enter into this holiday season with Thanksgiving starting tomorrow, it is a good time to start to live in the “gratitude flow” with life. When we are grateful for big and little things, we are actively and purposefully living a more grounded life. What we appreciate is appreciated. The ...

It was a saturated summer, and large portions of the pasture on the dairy farm I was renting were inundated. Had they a mind to do so, my Holsteins could have dogpaddled right over the submerged fence and strolled onto the adjoining highway. They might have then tried to thumb for rides except ...

Dear Annie: My 40-year-old son-in-law has horrible manners. At dinner, if we have a buffet set up with six pieces of chicken, and there are six people eating, he will grab four pieces. He’s always first in line and makes sure he gets the biggest and best of everything. He once shoved his ...

Dear Heloise: I had an important document that I needed to keep handy, so I put it on top of a pile of papers in my long desktop drawer. Minutes later, I went to retrieve it, but it was missing. Simply gone! It took me a bit to figure out that it must have slipped over the back of the drawer ...