Dear Annie: My boss is simply a taker, and I’m tired of it. I am a pretty generous person, but I feel like she takes advantage. She has no problem asking to use or have others’ personal items. When she first came to my office, she asked if she could use my coffee creamer. I thought ...

While mining companies continued to crop up in the Lake Superior copper region into the early 20th century, the Lake Superior mines were beginning to face incredibly stiff competition from mines in the western states, though they did not produce native copper as did those in Michigan. To ...

My group of friends and I did not know what to think or do when, back in my teenage years, one of our friends started seeing things flying around his head that none of the rest of us saw, but we all knew something was wrong. We have learned more about mental illness since then, including what ...

Dear Annie: My husband and I will be married two years in December. Prior to getting married, we had a “good” sex life. We discussed having a child of our own (I have three from a previous marriage), and he doesn’t have any. He’s now in his 40s, and I’m almost 40. Very shortly ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I need some guidance on the use of estradiol. I have been taking a low dose (1 mg) for the past 15 years, following a hysterectomy and oophorectomy. My doctor said I needed it to provide the estrogen once provided by my ovaries that he had just removed. At the time I was also ...

Dear Annie: Like so many of your readers, I never thought I’d be writing to you for help. But here I am. Almost seven years ago, I had to retire at age 61, due to recovering from extensive shoulder surgery and no longer being able to do my very physically demanding job. I was able to ...