DEAR HELOISE: We’ll be spending hours wrapping Christmas and Hannukah gifts in a few weeks, using a lot of paper sourced from forest trees that would be better left standing. I hate wrapping! I’ve come up with an alternative that has saved me hours of work — and saves trees as well! I ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a male who is 58 years of age. I recently had an MRI of my cervical spine, and just this month, I had a CT scan of my whole abdomen. Since then, I have had symptoms of dry eyes, weight loss and insomnia. I wondered if the contrast dye used for the MRI or CT scan can cause ...

Assume you’re East, defending against three notrump, and West leads the jack of spades. Declarer wins with the queen and plays the king of diamonds, West following suit with the seven. How would you defend the hand? You can’t see declarer’s cards, but it isn’t hard to figure out what ...

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DEAR ANNIE: My 11-year-old son, “Max,” used to eat, sleep and breathe baseball. He wore his glove to the grocery store, slept in his favorite team T-shirt and spent hours in the backyard throwing a ball against the fence, narrating imaginary World Series games. This year he finally made ...

DEAR HELOISE: I, too, had no idea who was calling me — whether it was a “friend or foe” so to speak. I have a Samsung phone, and I categorized my contacts, such as all doctors, family members, auto services and medical groups, by assigning different ringtones to each of the groups. I ...