Opinion

Dear Amy: My partner and I are eloping next month. I’m very excited, but my mother and sister keep complaining about my dress.

Dear Amy: “Randall,” who went to school with my boyfriend, recently passed away. My boyfriend and Randall were not particularly close and had not spoken in several years, but Randall left a wife and child behind.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a retired 76-year-old female in good health who exercises regularly. During the pandemic, I have been cautious, wearing a mask and avoiding crowds. I received both shots of the initial vaccine, followed with the booster shot in early October.

Dear Readers, Remnants of snow remain ‘round the farmhouse’s foundation, a not-quite-decorative edging of uneven pale scallops where the eaves block the sun’s reach. Across our northern pasture drifts persist, frozen wind sculpted lines resembling ocean waves.

When your business or organization needs to conduct a staff retreat, where do you go? Sometimes groups leave their town to go to a bigger city with lots of venue choices. Today we’ll meet an Extension district whose staff chose to go in the opposite direction.

Dear Amy: My fiance and I recently became engaged. He is originally from another country, and his family still lives there. Because of COVID-19 restrictions and the visa process, most are unable to travel to the U.S. for a wedding, so we decided to host (and pay for) a small U.S. ceremony and have a big wedding in his home country (where costs are much lower).

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 79-year-old woman with osteopenia. I had the FRAX assessment and was told my 10-year probability of major osteoporotic fracture percentage is 19.4%, with a hip fracture probability of 5.7%.