Denver Post: Living

Dear Eric: My husband and I, both happily retired with good pensions and Social Security, make our weekly grocery trips together. We take turns paying with our flight-points credit cards.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Eric: I’ve been going to the same neighborhood nail salon for nearly 10 years. They are usually great, but about two years ago, I continuously began to be relegated to a nail technician, “Sue,” who is very inconsistent, doing just OK sometimes and then on occasion was truly awful.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Eric: I have been married to my husband almost 10 years; we have two children. I will not lie and say these past years haven’t been without challenge. Separation and divorce have been tossed around.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The cuisine of the Latin American diaspora can be found all over Denver. To taste the differences is to understand how countries, cultures, and immigrants to this nation have taken foods common in the largely Spanish-speaking continent and splintered them into their own special creations.

Dear Eric: I have been sharing Thanksgiving with dear friends for decades. About three years ago, they learned a friend of mine, with whom they are acquainted, had no plans for the day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Eric: I’m a 75-year-old amateur songwriter who enjoys recording what I write. I’m also a widower going on three years. When my wife of 42 years was alive, I wrote songs for and about her and us.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Eric: The last four years of my father’s life, I was a near constant caregiver. I visited him daily, did his lawn work, took him to doctor’s appointments, to the barber, occasionally to dinner or a movie.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Remember when a wellness tip meant someone telling you to go outside, run around, and play in the snow and fresh air? That might still be good advice. But now, some experts might add that spa treatments and facials are necessary to support those choices and fight the effects of intense activity and sun exposure — even in winter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Eric: My family and I will be traveling from California to the UK to visit my husband’s parents with our two kids. During our visit, my husband’s brother, his partner, and their young daughter, will be joining us from Sweden for part of the stay.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Eric: I have an ongoing disagreement with my very polite and well-mannered husband. When we enter a venue together (restaurant, store, etc.), he opens the door/elevator door to let me through and then holds the door open so that at least two or three people and sometimes large groups of people, can walk in ahead of him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share