Dear Sidney

I’m enjoying the calm January weather, although the paranoia of a sudden snowstorm hangs in the air. My worry and upset this month is the non-response to my conversational text messages by certain family members. Are they really that busy? What is the current texting...

As I look back on the year 2023 and all the troubling questions you have been asked, I feel that perhaps mine will be a bit trivial. I am not a teenager without parents or an abused young mother with a husband who has abandoned her; but simply a so-called Karen...

Dearest Sidney, Happy New Year! May the year bless you and keep you warm. No more eight-foot snow berms. I have a dear friend now living out of state since 2019. Every Christmas since moving away, she sends me a gift box by way of the USPS. The box is always received...

I’m a 16-year-old girl and a Rim High student. My parents divorced last summer. I stayed with my dad, who moved in with my uncle, my mother’s brother, who was getting a divorce at the very same time. Instantly, they both hooked up with giggly girlfriends. My younger...

I may be asking this question too late, for I am in need of advice before Christmas Day shows up and rears its ugly head. I have nicknamed the holiday Guiltmas Day, because that’s the day my neighbors on both sides have for the last 20 years shown up uninvited with...

Well, heck, it’s holiday time again. I am a man in my 70s and have made a lovely life for myself (and my doggies) here on the mountain. I have a social calendar to brag about. The ratio of single women to single men up here is 2:1. I hang with like-minded people so...