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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I am a 54-year-old mother of two, a wife and a full-time teacher. My days are long, busy and usually uneventful. Every evening, I am expected to call my 84-year-old mother, who lives a few states away.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 Today is the 225th day of 2025 and the 55th day of summer. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1521, Hernando Cortes captured the capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan (later Mexico City), after a three-month siege.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband is going to be 70 next month. He is in good physical shape but has taken up smoking marijuana every day. He says he is addicted. I have told him how much I hate that he uses dope. He quits for a while and then goes back to it.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2025 HUSBAND REFUSES TO ACCEPT WIFE’S IMMINENT PASSING DEAR ABBY: I was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago. After two surgeries and three hospital stays, I recovered. The experience made me realize at 62 that it was time to downsize.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been a registered nurse for 11 years. I am experienced in hospital floor nursing and clinic nursing, and I have always been well regarded in my field. I have never had a problem forming positive relationships with my co-workers.

Over the past few weeks, we have considered the evidence supporting the concept that at one time in the ancient past, all of humanity was gathered together as one people of one race and culture, speaking one language.

You have probably been told a few times in your life to not let anyone take away your own peace. That you responsible if you are filled to the brim with good will toward all mankind - or had your fill of all mankind. “Your happiness is in your hands, and it depends upon your own reactions to events.

Christian speakers who use scattered Bible verses to form sermons need to be careful. Wherever each verse is taken from, the speaker needs to read enough in that particular book of the Bible about what was occurring and to whom it was written about.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are blessed with a 6-month-old son, “Tyler.” I’m now back at work three days a week. My mother and my motherin- law offered to watch him one day a week, which we were grateful for. (I found a babysitter for the third day.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I was married for 20 years to a man who slowly isolated me from friends and family until I had no one but him to rely on. Now 49 and divorced, I am without close friends. For the last two years, I’ve been actively trying to build connections.