Dear Straight Talk,
I’m 17 with a 12-year-old brother who I love very much. I’ve always been a good big sister to him and he comes to me for consolation and advice. W ...
Dear Straight Talk,
My very stressed-out son admitted using Adderall as a “study drug.” He says he needs it to be competitive. He buys it at high school ...
Dear Straight Talk: I am in a long-distance relationship and see my boyfriend every couple of weeks if I’m lucky. February break is coming up and I want to stay ...
Dear Straight Talk: I am writing about my friend. She has a problem with shoplifting, maybe even an addiction. I would like to help her stop before she gets caught because she is o ...
Dear Readers: Each new year I ask the panelists: What bugs you most about the world? How would you make the world better? Last week’s “better world” column covere ...
Dear Readers: What bugs you most about the world? How would you make the world better? Every winter, I pose these questions to the panel. This year, technology took a bruising. Rea ...
Dear Straight Talk: I attend high school parties but don’t usually drink or use drugs. Recently a girl chugged vodka. Everyone except me was drinking so nobody thought much o ...
Dear Straight Talk: I’m 17 and lucky to have an involved dad who believes in his kids. But he finds a way to pat my bottom or touch me closer to my chest than I am comfortable wi ...
Dear Readers: It’s time again for Straight Talk’s shopping list – direct from the source. I’m always hoping Santa will “think outside the box” (literally) and scratch v ...
Dear Straight Talk: I’m a 16-year-old girl and my brother is 13.
Our alcoholic stepfather gets drunk every night and becomes verbally abusive toward all of us, especially my br ...
