Shhhh. Please don’t tell them. It’s a secret. You know as well as I what happens when you start thinking of a replacement. Perfectly dependable day after day, the minute it suspects, it goes haywire. My home was built in 1996. (How strange it feels now to write a date that doesn’t ...

How many times do we hear kids complain there’s nothing to do, and that they’re bored? We get on their cases about finding something to do, or some make the investments in video game equipment just so we won’t have to listen to them complain about the lack of entertainment in their ...

Around the first of the year, I like to scroll through the documents on my computer, seeing if any need to be in a file together, or maybe deleted. This year, I found a document from 2008 about black bear tracking dog licenses. There are no notes to indicate why I would have saved this ...

When my son was growing up, we had a white German Shephard. It was not the ideal dog since we lived on a farm. That beautiful white fur was often covered with grease or animal waste depending on where she was. When I went to the hospital to have a baby the dog refused to eat. I had been the ...

Q: I really struggle with worrying about ... well, almost everything. Do you have any practical suggestions for controlling my anxiety and keeping my perspective? Jim: Let me turn back the clock to a well-known author and speaker, Dale Carnegie. Although he died in 1955, his books and ...

Monday morning quarterback. The saying began in professional football. Radio talk shows cropped up to discuss in detail the previous day’s game. Which team won, which team lost. As the experts provided in-depth analysis of the game, the talk show expanded to include call-ins. Regular folks ...