Dear Erik: We regularly play music with a group of friends. It’s an informal, open group in a public space and generally everyone is welcome to play, at any level. However, there is one woman who comes with her husband, who is a good player, but she has no skill at all, and her game […]
Dear Erik: My mother is in her last months of life. For the past three years, she has been cared for at home by increasingly expensive home care workers. I and other siblings have suggested time and time again that she be placed in a nursing home for 24 hour care, but our oldest sibling […]
Dear Erik: Should I tell a coworker that many of her colleagues criticize her as selfish and self-centered? She got married a year ago, but didn’t honeymoon because the couple, both in their 40s, had just returned from two weeks in Europe. Now they’ve decided they want a “dream honeymoon” at a luxury resort. To […]