Category: Dear Abby Archive

I haven’t visited with my good buddy, Abby, lately. Most definitely an oversight on my part. But, this Dear Abby was simply impossible to resist. DEAR ABBY: My friend “Suzy’s” husband recently got a pet monkey named “Jocko.” He and the monkey play games together. The problem is he has now begun ignoring Suzy in favor of the monkey. Let… Read more →

I guess this could fall under the “don’t judge a book by its cover” category. At least, that is what the woman who wrote this letter to Dear Abby was hoping we’d all think when we read it. As promised earlier today, exhibit b: Dear Abby: I recently learned a lesson about not judging a book by its cover. A… Read more →

The letters to Abby this week have been filled with the crazy. Gotta love them. Seriously, I mean you really have to love them. It’s a law. The first is below. The second will be on its way later today. Exhibit a: Dear Abby: I need your advice on how to break an engagement with my fiance, whose tour of… Read more →

Abby sure does receive some fun mail. This letter comes to her from Tucson, Arizona where the recent flooding has apparently done nothing to dampen the flames of passion inside this young woman’s mother. Problem is, she’s confiding this in her daughter. Let’s read on, shall we? Dear Abby: I am 21, and I have a complicated problem. My mother,… Read more →

Everyone knows I love Dear Abby. Today’s letter caused me great consternation. Read along, please. Dear Abby: Honesty pays. I received a call today from a gentleman who had picked up a large cardboard box that I had left at the recycling center. I feel good things are coming. Obviously, the guy found something of value and this woman is… Read more →

I’ve had the chance to paruse the Chronicle this morning for the first time in a few days given my travels. As usual, I read Dear Abby and, once again, a letter has struck me to the point that I HAD to post this. I recently met a gorgeous woman I’ll call “Giselle.” After we had dated for a couple… Read more →

Not so much in the Dear Abby column lately to write about, so I turn to Miss Manners. I sometimes feel like Miss Manners is a bit of a fuddy duddy (oh, heavens to betsy!) with her ever-so-proper responses, but, as I learned from my ex-wife’s collection of vintage etiquette books, there’s never a bad time for good manners. Today’s… Read more →

Oh, how I love Dear Abby. Today, a grandmother in Missouri writes: Dear Abby: I have reason to believe that a young man in my family may be gay (he is 15). I have been thinking a lot about it lately, and have been wondering if circumcision would cure it. What do you think? I think you’ve solved what clergy… Read more →

I read Dear Abby. I admit it. Her good ol’ homespun wisdom can be poignant or funny as hell depending on the moment. But, what got me in a recent column was not her advice, but the advice of a reader. Apparently, a young woman wrote in recently to complain that, despite being in her 20’s, she looks very young… Read more →

I read Dear Abby. That sounds weird, right? That’s ok. I’m weird. Anyway, this letter today cracked me the hell up… Dear Abby: I need your input. Young women today are wearing low-rise pants, short tops and thong underwear. While my wife and I were dining at a restaurant the other night, a woman was sitting with her back to… Read more →