DEAR HARRIETTE: My teenage granddaughter, who is a junior in high school, and I are going through a period of disagreement. It seems like we can’t see eye to eye on anything lately.
With the passage of House Bill 2418, which took effect Nov. 1, Oklahoma became the first state in the nation to require a course for new teen drivers to teach them about safety in road construction zones and when around first responders.
DEAR HARRIETTE: My birthday just passed, and I am throwing a birthday party at my friend’s house. I used to invite everyone in my grade to my parties when I was younger, but my classes were also very small then. Now that I am in college, I cannot invite everybody.
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to our monthly letters column. With chillier weather in much of the country, we’re getting a lot of questions about flu and COVID-19 prevention. And to everyone who wrote in last month to share your frustration with (and adverse effects from) the return to standard time, you are not alone. The switch prompted some interesting questions about sleep, which we’ll address in future columns.
There is a subterranean conversation going on in the United States that every one of the country’s 500 or so political insiders is conducting, but that none of the rest of the 332 million Americans has heard. For the time being, that conversation is meaningless. But if it becomes consequential, it will reach the ears of everyone, change the course of global history, reshape the character of the Democratic Party, perhaps affect the nature of the Republican Party, and surely overhaul all the knowns (and create new unknowns) about the 2024 election.
In 1577, Sir Francis Drake left England on a three-year voyage around the world.
Sandra Day O’Connor, who died last week at age 93, was both the first and the last. She was the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981. She was the last justice to serve in elected office before joining the bench. And in her words, she was the “first cowgirl” – and most certainly the last – to join the High Court.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I'm eager to reorganize and declutter my living space. However, I have tried to do this in the past and have never been successful. What practical steps or approaches can I take to efficiently reorganize, purge belongings and create a more serene environment without feeling overwhelmed by the process? — Declutter DEAR DECLUTTER: I will first say that this is a weak area for me as well, but I am happy to share what I have been taught.
Dear Doctors: After my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, she learned that she has a BRCA gene, and that it put her at risk of getting it. Now she's urging all of her girlfriends to get genetic testing.
CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 40 YEARS AGO