Dear Amy: My good friends want to downsize for retirement, but the major repairs needed on their house will prevent them from making enough on the sale to buy their next place. They asked me to ...

Dear Readers: A recent query from “Perplexed in Suburbia” asked why people under the age of 50 don’t return friendly “hellos.” I posited that this might be a regional issue, but also asked readers if ...

Dear Amy: Two years ago, my good friends that lived across the street moved away. The following summer, I invited the new family (“Family A”) along with three other neighboring families over for a ...