Dear Eric: My question is, should I ask my mom for the birth mother’s information, name and address? My reasoning is that my mom is now 85 and my sister and her husband are in poor health. I believe my sister has destroyed all documents regarding the adoption, so I doubt any paperwork would be discovered by my niece after her passing.
Beginning Sept. 23, the Smart Museum of Art in will open a landmark mid-career retrospective of Theaster Gates’ far-flung art practices.
Kristina Smithe’s company, Hiccup Earth, has taken the cups to 137 races and spared more than 902,000 disposable ones from hitting a landfill.
The cruelty and sad ridiculousness of the uber-wealthy are once again at the center of his latest project.
Dear Eric: After my brother and I left for college, my mother carried on a series of extramarital affairs and ultimately left my father; she has now remarried to her latest fling. They are even attending the same church we went to from the time I was a child.
Dear Eric: I own a nice home with a pool. I have friends that often call me to ask me if I want to go lay out in the backyard or sometimes, they’ll just call and ask if they can come over to use the pool. My issue is when I have people over, I feel obligated to entertain. Even though I know I don’t need to feel obligated, and they don’t expect anything, I’m really getting increasingly uncomfortable with people inviting themselves over to my home.
Dear Eric: Blame it on my probably irrational fear that they could start a major blaze, and honestly, the fact that I just don’t want them smoking in my yard, around my child, by me. What can I do to make sure they aren’t smoking here?
Dear Eric: Several years ago, my mother-in-law passed away due to dementia. During the time of her illness, my husband and I took care of everything, including selling her house, auctioning off her estate, dealing with her boyfriend who could never admit she had dementia, and dealing with the COVID restrictions for visiting her. Of note, my brother-in-law lives in the upper Midwest; we, and his mother, live in Florida. The burden was put on us, not him.
Dear Eric: A Girl Scout dad engages me constantly during troop meetings, telling me about the latest horror of his ugly separation and upcoming divorce, usually within earshot of the kids. I offer simple responses to give him the message that I am busy watching my kid and not interested in the drama.
A new “Superman,” a new “Jurassic Park” sequel plus a few genuinely new un-franchised hopefuls fill the summer 2025 movie calendar.