Monthly Archives: July 2020

It’s not an insult, I really can’t touch your dog

Dear Amy: I have a severe general allergy to poison ivy. If the least amount of poison ivy urushiol oil touches any part of me, I’ll explode with hundreds of small but itchy blisters. Columnist Amy Dickinson (Bill Hogan / Chicago Tribune) These blisters cover my body (not just where …

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5 ways the next stimulus deal can disappoint you

Simply put, there is nothing that could have prepared people for what we experienced in 2020. Putting aside the hornet jokes of the murder, the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) has been a shock physical and financial for the United States. It caused the deaths of more than 136,000 people …

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