Dear Sidney

I’m an older single lady who lives alone with an old dog in an old cabin. It snowed again last week; not much, just enough to make taking a walk or driving the car a bad idea. On my street are much younger neighbors, a few healthy men and women, all with...

Since my husband and I settled in Crestline nine months ago, I've enjoyed following your column, which always offers sensible advice with grace. Which is why I now seek your guidance as I find myself in a predicament concerning a newfound friend I've made. Our paths...

I just don’t wanna go anywhere anymore! I don’t care one danged bit to spend the night away from my little cabin. I don’t want to schlepp my shaving, shampooing and vitamin supplies across town or across the Pacific Ocean, for that matter. I’ve been there. I’ve done...

The sun is out! My old dog is sleeping very well in the sun. However, I’m not sleeping well at all. I may have bruised the dear friendship of a neighbor. The guilt is keeping me awake. She went and married an unequally yoked dirt bag. When she filed for divorce six...

I turned in the cable box! I’m saving $100 a month. Tonight I am NOT watching the disappointing Oscars. Instead, I’m devouring one of my favorite oldies from 1954, The High and the Mighty, with John Wayne and Robert Stack, a fabulous relationship study of the doomed...

I’m crushed, angry and coming to the end of understanding. I’m tired of being silent, when I want to fight back and scream, but I don’t because of my fear of being estranged from my only child, my son, and from his 2-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, the mother of my...