Categories

Love & Marriage

Auld Lang Syne - Should Nostalgic in New Orleans reconnect with her old boyfriend?

Auld Lang Syne - Should Nostalgic in New Orleans reconnect with her old boyfriend?

Dear Erica, I’ve been invited to a New Years party where I’ll be forced to see my old boyfriend. It was a pretty painful breakup but now, many years later, I am very happily married and I’ve heard tha...

Family & Friends

Exasperated in Essex's mother-in-law is a hypochondriac! Is there anything she can do about it?

Exasperated in Essex's mother-in-law is a hypochondriac! Is there anything she can do about it?

Dear Erica, My mother-in-law is a total hypochondriac. She has a whole host of ailments that keep her in bed on a regular basis, and the doctors have not been able to find anything actually wrong with...

Current Events

The growing divide in politics and society - Is social media really to blame?  Or would George Eliot say it's always been this way?

The growing divide in politics and society - Is social media really to blame? Or would George Eliot say it's always been this way?

Dear Erica, In a world where everyone seems so far to the left and so far to the right, both here in the US, and abroad in Europe too, what do you think the classics can tell us about our growing poli...