Dear Heloise: I was reading the letter from the lady who is very upset with the state of her nails due to her lifelong nail-biting. I was a nail-biter for a little over 50 years, until my wife ...

Dear Heloise: It was the week before Christmas, and I was shopping at a large, well-known retail store where they only had one register open and a line that was the length of the entire store. Then ...

Dear Heloise: A recent column of yours appropriately points out how Americans botch both written and spoken English. Over the past 20 years, I’ve noticed that attorneys are offenders against correct ...

Dear Heloise: In response to Diane T. in Arizona, I had the opposite happen to me. I had been going to a hairdresser for many, many years. It was my hairdresser who started to not be on time. My time ...

Dear Heloise: We live in a trilevel house and have seven steps going up and seven steps going down. My husband installed a second handrail opposite the one that was already there on both sets of steps ...

Dear Heloise: In response to Jerry, in Nebraska, who saw a UFO: impossible! The closest star is Alpha Centauri, which is about 4 light years away. Traveling at a decent speed means a trip of a few ...

I read the hint from your reader, Jim, about leaving stovetop knobs slightly off the vertical line to remind him to turn them ...