Editor’s note: Annie Lane is off this week. This column was originally published in 2019.

After a few years of staycation, many of us are looking forward to a summer of exciting travel. Some of us will be driving the roads for many other different reasons, but just the same, we want to safely reach our respective destinations.

Dear Heloise: I am a massage therapist in San Antonio and appreciate the exercises you suggested for people who sit a lot that ran in your column recently. Here is something else to add to that, which many of my clients find helpful.

Today’s Sound Off is about a new fraud alert — fake loans.

Editor’s note: Annie Lane is off this week. This column was originally published in 2019.

Editor’s note: Annie Lane is off this week. This column was originally published in 2019.

Dear Savvy Senior,

Dear Annie: When I was 12 or 13 years old, I had a pen pal in a different state. I’ll call him “Casey.” This was long before anyone had ever heard of the term “catfished.” We wrote several long letters every week and sent many photographs and small gifts. At times, we would speak on the phon…

Dear Heloise: In reference to what to do with the extra greeting cards you receive, please send them to Operation Gratitude, 9409 Owensmouth Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311. Operation Gratitude is an organization that sends packages to our deployed troops, veterans, first responders and more. The…

It seems like the wind blows about 30 mph from the southwest for a couple of days, then we have a calm day.

Dear Readers: Recently, we have been getting letters from readers who say they get emails and text messages telling them that the bank has frozen their account due a number of things. Some are told there has been suspicious activity in their account or that the IRS requested that their accou…

Dear Annie: I have teenagers who are in multiple sports. My mother-in-law is a huge fan of sports and attends most events. She gets extremely excited about the game going on and is incredibly loud — shouting during a majority of the game.

Dear Annie: My one sister and I took care of our parents for the last 20 years due to their poor health and dementia. We have another sister who always made promises to our parents to stop by and take them out to eat or make them some of their favorite food, but they hardly ever did that.

Heloise: Indeed, check washing is a real problem. It occurred in our area after postal carriers were robbed of the keys they use to access the drop boxes. It was reported that almost all the drop boxes use the same lock. There are other issues also, both fiscal and administrative, that are c…

It was surprising news in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. There’s another about-turn among scientists studying hormone therapy as a treatment for symptoms of menopause. This time, researchers have produced findings that suggest benefits to healthy women who start HT early in the tr…

Dear Annie: My oldest son is 43. He lives in another state. He has a girlfriend that he lives with. They are serious but not married, but they do plan to get married. The girlfriend has four children, ages 22, 21, 14 and 12.

Dear Heloise: My family loves sausage patties on Sunday morning when we are all gathered together around the breakfast table. Unfortunately, I hated making them because the sausage stuck to my hands and that greasy fat was so difficult to get off. Then I tried wetting my hands with water bef…

Our body functions are greatly affected by lack of sleep.

Dear Annie: I am one who married at 19. If “Disapproving” wants to maintain a good relationship with her daughter, she should voice her concerns but assure her daughter she trusts her judgment and will always be there for her.

Dear Heloise: My wife had the neurological disease progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and in the last year of her life, she lost her ability to communicate, which is the case with many neurological diseases. I realized that if I had a medical emergency, she was unable to tell first respon…

Dear Annie: My daughter has two wonderful little boys, ages 2 and 1, with a man who has proven time and time again to be unfaithful. My daughter is 24 and dated “Marcus” in high school. He seemed like a nice enough young man. He went off to college and ended up losing his scholarship due to …

Today’s Sound Off is about Hanging on to your money:

Dear Savvy Senior,

Dear Annie: My wife is a synagogue president, which is a highly visible position.

A common fun and common horticulture project is to start or propagate your own plants.

Dear Annie: My partner was made disabled last year and is confined to a wheelchair. At the moment, he is in the hospital and has been since last August. When he was in the spinal unit, I only saw him three days a week but would FaceTime every day. Now that he is closer to me, he wants me to …

Dear Heloise: I wanted to write in regarding losing socks. I bought 10 pairs of identical black socks, which I wear all winter. Since they are all the same, I don’t have to do any matching. For other socks, I don’t wait until doing laundry to pin them together; I pin them together when I tak…