Dear Heloise: In regard to your hint about flowers at funerals, I no longer send flowers to funerals. Sometimes the service ...

The way we mourn and lay to rest our friends and loved ones has changed significantly over the past 10 or 15 years, and looking at the last five pandemic years, the changes have accelerated. Flowers ...

Dear Heloise: I just read the letter about threatening children who are misbehaving with a police arrest and wanted to share my experience as a nurse. I have heard parents say things like, “You had ...

DEAR HELOISE: Martha D., in Southfield, Michigan, missed the point about flowers at a funeral. Of course, the dead person can’t “appreciate the beauty,” but family and friends are comforted by the ...

Grief is a journey – and you never know for sure where it'll take you. When Janet Willis' mom passed away from small cell lung cancer in her 70s, Willis said she felt like she lost more than a mother; ...