Opinions

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2025 DEAR ABBY: In the four years my husband and I have been married, his distaste for the LGBTQ community has grown into a passion. He calls it immoral and unnatural.

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband works out of state for an oil rigging company 20 days out of the month. He gets 10 days off. When he comes home, we may have two days of quality time together. The rest of his time he spends on his phone outside.

Matilda K. Williams Seminole, OK I usually don’t respond to replies to my letters to the editor. I’m entitled to my opinion. So is everyone else entitled to theirs. However, this time it feels like there is a truth at stake. Mr. Richard M.

SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband and I recently moved out of state. His only living relative, a sister, recently came to visit. She has never been married. She is a retired professional and has a good retirement, especially since she has no children.

My dog gets excited when I say the word “dog park.” He knows he’ll see friends there. But yesterday was different. There was only one other mixed breed dog, working with his owner. “Your dog appears really alert,” I said. “Does he do tricks?” “Sure,” the guy said.

I wrote this short essay about my dad and I thought it would be appropriate for Father’s Day; it goes like this: DADDY’S LEGACY I’ve already surpassed your age when you passed. I still feel 30ish--certainly not in my 70s.

You think that bold firefighters hold no fear in their bones when they rush into a red-hot cauldron of fire that was once a high-rise building? That police officers run have no fear inside as they run toward an active crime scene?

The pencil sharpeners in the classroom all have two things in common. They make an awful noise, and they chew up pencils instead of sharpening them. I was substituting in a classroom and found that I could tolerate the sharpener no longer. “Why are you working on the pencil sharpener?

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I found out that, behind my back, my best friend has been (secretly) growing hair for the past year. He knows I have been balding for many years. Although I have accepted my follicular fate, he knows I constantly search for self-improvement in my life.

THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My 40-year-old daughter is on weight-loss injections and a no-sugar diet. I offered to bake her a sugar- free cheesecake, and she agreed, but she asked me to make a “tester” cake three days before.