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Dear Abby: I’m a slave to my mother’s mortgage

DEAR ABBY: My mom and I recently got into an argument about her mortgage. I’m on the mortgage and title to her home because she couldn’t afford to be on it by herself and needed my income and credit to help her. So, I did. I helped her.  I am…

Car-free cities and towns to visit in Europe

We’ve grown so used to the constant background hum of car horns and engines that we don’t appreciate true silence until we’re away from it. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It’s not just the lack of noise, either – no cars means you can meander aimlessly without worrying about crossing the road or…

No panhandling: Florida’s ‘Redneck Riviera’ just got a whole lot fancier

The beaches of northwest Florida have nicknames. Some call these sparkling, jewel-toned waters the Emerald Coast. A recent marketing campaign has dubbed the area NoFlo, while others call the region simply the Panhandle. Still, its best-known sobriquet is also its most unflattering: to most it’s the Redneck Riviera. But these…

DR on the DL: Sniffing out a Caribbean hideaway’s hush-hush hot spots

From car trunk speakers thumping merengue, to marketeers hawking fresh mofongo, Dominicans have many talents — spoiler alert: quietude ain’t one of them. That is, however, until you ask about their secret beaches — then a silence washes across their vocal cords like so much seaweed upon their shores. Of course,…