Dear Carolyn: I spent 10 years helping my aging parents. They died six years ago. Now my husband’s mom is 91 with dementia, and he and one sister do all the caregiving. His other two…

 (By Karissa Niehoff, Executive Director of the National Federation of State High School Associations and Bill Faflick, Executive Director of the Kansas State High School Activities Association.)   If you are the mother or father…

DEAR CAROLYN: My parents always told us they were taking care of us in their will and their house was full of valuable antiques.  I’m executor of the estate and when all is said and…

Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I are both 19, and we’ll be having our five-year anniversary this summer. We’ve dated long-distance the entire time. To celebrate this milestone, we are going on an overnight trip.…

Leaning against the brick front of our fireplace is an old sled, festooned with Mickey Mouse’s name and his well-preserved image. How the sled came to be mine is a Christmas tale that has likely…

Hi, Carolyn: My father recently suffered some irreparable damage to his eye as a symptom of the aging process coupled with diabetes; he’s 75 and in fairly good health otherwise. He has had 20/20 vision…