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I have two friends I will call “Tom” and “Jack.”

At our house the month of May is full of bees but not the stinging kind.

Many of us have spent too much time over the winter pondering what it is that impels many outdoors people into the high back country in one of the more hazardous avalanche seasons we have ever experienced, even as the list of deaths by suffocation grew weekly.

Every year Mother Nature drops snow when it is least expected, late spring or early in fall. The reaction is always the same — surprise and disgust.

I am a confused and stressed-out 28-year-old pregnant woman. I have been with my boyfriend for almost a year.

live in a close-knit neighbourhood of eight young couples. Naturally, there is some gossip, so we feel personally involved in situations that may not be our business.

As a business owner, have you ever said, “Advertising just doesn’t work”?

Dear Margo: Our daughter started college a year ago, and we’ve noticed during her visits home that she’s not the sweet, innocent girl we sent away for higher learning.

My next book, due out this summer from Enslow Publishers is entitled Disease-Hunting Scientist: Careers Hunting Deadly Diseases.

Dear Annie: I am in my early 20s and attending college. I recently found out that my mother had been having an off-and-on affair with a married man for years.