Let’s say your dad is 54, earns $70,000 a year working as a contractor and owns a home worth $400,000 outright. He’s debt-free, but he doesn’t have a 401 (k) and has only $10,000 saved in a brokerage ...

Nothing is positive and/or worth getting out of bed for. I feel so blah, yucky and worthless. Please, where do I start?

Dear Eric: My best friend of nearly 50 years has been diagnosed with cancer, and the prognosis isn’t good. Naturally, I want to support her, but she’s making it very challenging. I just spoke with her ...

Children have returned to school. Not only is the initial “honeymoon” period over, but so are the hopes that whatever previous social behavioral difficulties they had last spring would have vanished ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My daughter, a high school junior, recently broke her leg, and it has turned our whole household upside down. Related Articles Harriette Cole: Do I need to tell my husband how I know ...

Dear Eric: Lately I have been kind of a jerk to people around me, and although it is kind of a mystery as to why, I know it is something I need to get a handle on. I just don’t know how. For example, ...