Opinions

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I’ve known “Bianca” since high school. She’s my neighbor and godmother to my son. I consider her a sister, and we travel and spend holidays together. Our families get along well. A month ago, my body started aching all over.

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I am a 55-year-old father of a 7-year-old child. My social skills and experience are rusty due to graduate school and post-graduate training years (12 years, to be exact) without much social interaction.

DEAR ABBY: I have been in a text relationship for nearly a year. I call it a text relationship because we communicate solely through texting. Because I’m not a video chat person, it doesn’t bother me that we don’t Zoom.

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2025 DEAR ABBY: Our son and his girlfriend had our first grandchild 18 months ago. We helped them move out of their rental house before the baby was born and buy a cute little house, which we made sure was in good shape before they moved in.

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My parents have been divorced for almost 30 years. My father is still furious with my mother, and she is indifferent toward him. My son is about to graduate from high school, and both grandparents want to attend the ceremony and dinner afterward.

Everyone pays the cost of abusive tort lawsuits. The average cost of tort litigation to each Oklahoma family is $2,930, according to a report by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform.

Let me give my personal baseline right here at the beginning, and then jump headlong from that starting point. God is the giver of life. He has a plan for every life He creates. And He says it is a good plan.

Now, this message today is for those of us who are ‘getting on’ in age. (You decide if this includes you.) I watch timeless messages spoken by Billy Graham. Some go back to the 60s, but it seems they could have been given today.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I’m in my early 40s and have been working hard since my mid 20s. I have a nice house that my wife and I are trying to pay off and two kids. We live pretty comfortably, but by no means are we well off.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My friend “Alma” has a handicapped parking permit. I never asked her why she has it. We regularly go for long walks, and she seems perfectly able-bodied.