It’s always a pleasure to watch the variety of feathered visitors at our backyard birdfeeders year-round, but snowbirds reign as our family’s unanimous winter favorite. Who could resist those plump gray songbirds with their showy white bellies and tails? They crowd around the feeders, ...

Many of us observe the beauty of trees and bushes during winter, standing leafless and bare during cold months. However, not all deciduous trees and bushes lose their leaves in the fall, but cling on the stem until spring. According to The Ohio State University’s Buckeye Yard and Garden ...

DEAR ANNIE: I genuinely like my job and most of the people I work with. We are a small office, so we see a lot of each other, share the same kitchen and bump into one another all day long. Normally that is fine, but lately one co-worker has turned cold and flu season into his own personal ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My question is about methocarbamol (Robaxin). My relative has been taking this for about two years for back pain. He then developed a sudden severe allergic reaction and went into anaphylactic shock. He fought it all night, not knowing what was happening, and by morning, he had ...

This deal occurred in the final of the 1992 U.S. Women’s Team Championship to select America’s representative to the 1992 Women’s Team Olympiad. When the deal was first played, Nancy Passell and Nell Cahn reached four spades as shown against two members of the eventual winning squad, ...

DEAR HELOISE: I am a 75-year-old woman who enjoys setting a pretty table for special holidays, and I like using cloth napkins on such occasions. I have no biological children but frequently entertain nieces, nephews and other family members and friends. Usually, most of them set the cloth ...