Dear Abby: I have been married 10 years. My husband is from another country, and the last six years haven’t been easy. I’ve been the sole provider for our family, on the advice of our lawyer, while we were getting his paperwork complete (my husband refused to work illegally). I have stood by this man […]
MBTA zoning law subject of multiple amendments in Senate
The budget fight due to take place in the senate this week will apparently include at least some discussion about revisiting the MBTA zoning law which has caused no small amount of trouble for a number of Bay State municipalities in recent months. The fiscal 2026 senate budget proposal includes hundreds of amendments, and some […]
Dear Abby: Mom iced out by rude son, DIL
Dear Abby: I have a full-time job and am in pretty good health. I have one son, “Brian,” who is married and has three children. My problem is that my son is often rude to me. I was a single mom who raised him on my own. I thought I was a pretty good mother. […]
Dear Abby: Wicked stepmother Sandra bullies teen
Dear Abby: My dear friend, “Sandra,” is married with two children. She and her husband have a 4-year-old son together and another son from her husband’s first marriage who is 14. The 14-year-old’s life is tough, much like Cinderella’s. Sandra treats him very badly. She has him doing all of the housework in their home, […]
Harvard president takes pay cut as university attempts to cover frozen funds
Harvard is clearly starting to feel the effect of going toe-to-toe with the Trump administration. The Ivy League university has notified its researchers and students that they will dip into their saving accounts to help cover the gap caused by frozen research funding withheld after the school refused to bow before the whims of the […]
Dear Abby: Seasonal soup ready for its close-up
Dear Abby: Years ago, I purchased your recipe booklet which had a very good recipe for gazpacho (no oil in the recipe). I no longer have that booklet. Could you print the gazpacho recipe? Also, is the booklet still available? There were several other dishes in it I enjoyed preparing. Thank you. — Brenda B. […]
Dear Abby: Sis with dementia should not be driving
Dear Abby: My oldest sister has it in her head that since she’s home all week, she needs to go out every Sunday. She started calling me every Saturday to invite me to accompany her, which I did a few times. In doing so, I realized she has mobility issues and the beginnings of dementia. […]
Dear Abby: Ex-wife returns after 46 years to ‘explain’
Dear Abby: When my first wife and I were in our early 20s, she left me for another man. It was difficult, but I worked through it, learned to trust again and remarried a few years later. This may be hard to believe, but 46 years later, my ex-wife thought it would be a good […]
Dear Abby: Fussing fiancee treats him like a child
Dear Abby: I’m engaged to a delightful woman from a foreign country. She’s a divorcee, and her 19-year-old son is doing well in college. She essentially raised him herself. Because of some spectrum disorder and ADHD symptoms, her son was apparently a handful. I am healthy, have multiple advanced degrees (including an M.D. and a […]
Dear Abby: Cousin expects support for bad choices
Dear Abby: My cousin (more like a sister) has made some extremely rash and concerning choices over the last year. After she had her second baby, she left her husband and started seeing a series of borderline-abusive men. She’s now in the process of signing full custody of the children over to her ex-husband and […]