Dear Sidney

I’ve foolishly fallen in love with a sweet, lovely girl, a girl of a different race. I met her at my favorite restaurant. I love their Kung Pao chicken and came back for more and more. I spend my working hours longing to be with her and when I’m with her it feels like...

I hope I’m not being presumptive or rude in thinking that, after reading your weekly column for over a year, you must be a fellow senior citizen. May I pick your brain as to why at just 75 years old, I am suddenly falling apart, lethargic and pretty much done with the...

I’m stuck in a marriage from hell. I was single for a long time. The kids are grown and gone. I own my home. I have a decent job. So what do I go and do? I get swept off my feet by a wheeler-dealer I met on Facebook. Just like that, snap, there are three huge smelly...

My mother is continuing to ruin my life. It’s like a sickness. She wants to control everything I do, say, or think. I am not a teenager; I’m 35 years old and for the first time in love and want to get married. Of course, she has nothing good to say about my fiancé....

I’m pulling my hair out right now. In fact, I may just snip off my long white ponytail and call it quits. We don’t have a cell phone by choice, but today may be the day that I pull the plug on the landline. What is with all these darned Internet, TV cable, solar and...

I believe I’ve made a big fat stupid mistake and at 56, I may not get a second chance to make it right. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Just another mountain romance gone stinko. Anyway, I met a swell fella – age appropriate, employed, tall and fit – and jumped...