Dear Abby: A friend was diagnosed with cancer. A single woman living alone, she rallied a group of co-workers, friends and neighbors to donate their time to help her with a variety of tasks. These included driving her back and forth to chemo and doctor appointments, fixing meals, cleaning her house (she has OCD and was superpicky about every detail, including cleaning the cat box), sleeping over to make sure she was OK (we had only a lumpy couch because she refused to set up a bed in one of her two vacant bedrooms!) and handling a variety of other tasks. ...more

January 27, 2008

TAMPA In Florida, Santa doesn't need Prancer, Dancer, Donder or Blitzen when he has an Evinrude, Mercury, Johnson or even a pair of oars. ...more

December 5, 2007

PLANT CITY - With no new leads and no break in the case, the owners of two slain and mutilated baby pigs decided to turn up the heat by placing a half-page newspaper advertisement. ...more

November 23, 2007

By day, Joel D. Wynkoop drives a truck as a water salesperson and deliveryman. ...more

October 29, 2007

By day, Joel D. Wynkoop drives a truck as a water salesperson and deliveryman. ...more

October 25, 2007

An e-mail with the subject line 'Are you a top chef?' recently captured my attention. Ordinarily I give junk mail a cursory glance, hit delete and then move on. But this one called my name like cookies right out of the oven. ...more

October 24, 2007

More than 70 years ago, the Conleys, a pioneer Ruskin family, gathered some like-minded friends and neighbors to their home on College Avenue for prayer. The group grew, and two years later, it moved into a new church, First Baptist Church of Ruskin. ...more

October 17, 2007

Equal but different. You hear that a lot on the lush green campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. ...more

October 13, 2007

Dear Abby: I am the single mother of a wonderful 13-year-old son. His father and I were divorced when he was 1. Aside from some help and love from my parents when he was young, I have raised my son practically by myself. Nana and Dad looked after 'Todd' while I was at work, which allowed them a lot of time together when he was young. ...more

September 23, 2007