Opinions

DEAR ABBY: I never want to eat my husband’s cooking again. He refuses to follow recipes because he says they are “too hard.” He doesn’t use seasonings -- or he uses the wrong ones. An example: He recently put cinnamon and cloves on zucchini and agreed with me that it tasted terrible.

with Dr. Andy Bowman and Renie Bowman Fireworks at home on the fourth of July? Almost a given in a large percentage of American homes on that day. If you think that getting fireworks from your local roadside seller is just too expensive?

In the field of science, a “law” is a statement concerning some behavior or phenomenon in nature that has been repeatedly observed, and its conclusion is strongly supported by rigorous experimentation. The law of gravity is one such law that most people are familiar with.

First of all, 2 weekends ago, my family celebrated my mother’s 99th birthday. She enjoyed seeing family and friends. She influenced me more than anyone to be ever learning.

DEARABBY: My husband was married to a woman who lied to him about being pregnant. She wasn’t at the time, but she later became pregnant. They had two sons and divorced five years later. He never loved her.I married him eight years after that. We have been happily married for 45 years.

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married for 20 years and have three kids: 19 (in college), 17 and 15. My wife and I sleep in separate beds and haven’t had sex in more than five years -- her choice, not mine. We tried counseling in the past but never got anywhere.

DEAR ABBY: When I was 16 and my sister “Daisy” was 18, I found out she was in a sexual relationship with my boyfriend, “Tyler” (also 18). I broke it off. She then asked if I minded her dating him. I’m sure I said I didn’t, but I thought, “Why ask? You were already having sex with him.

DEAR ABBY: I don’t care for my son’s girlfriend, “Trish,” and he knows it. He seems to date needy women. It may boost his ego, but it doesn’t reflect well on the young lady. Our initial encounter with Trish wasn’t a good one. We found her to be rude and disrespectful.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married for 35 years. The week we were to celebrate our 34th anniversary, he invited a female friend to our vacation home for an overnight rendezvous. He was unaware that our adult children had placed a trail cam in the woods -- and he was caught red-handed.

Charles Darwin said that if it could be shown that evolution did not occur by small, incremental, and cumulative changes, then his theory would come completely unraveled. Just over one hundred and sixty years later, biochemist Michael Behe did just that.