I'm afraid someday someone is going to be sitting on his deck and it's going to collapse, and people will get hurt. I'm ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Many readers wrote in response to the 65-year-old single woman who was struggling with how to reply to people who questioned ...

Many of you wrote to me in response to “Independent and Irritated.” This 65-year-old single woman was struggling with how to ...

Dear Annie: Like “Independent and Irritated,” I am single in my 60s. I’ve had my share of relationships, and as I got older, ...

A reader shares what a poem Abby printed years ago still means to her.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA ...

While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by ...

While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

The Nobel Prize-winning poet was a renowned defender of humanitarian causes through much of the 20th century. Yet he had no time or interest for Malva Marina, his only child, who was born with ...