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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Single mother by choice wants
positive support from friends
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I’m a single woman
secure. If you need help with your
who has always wanted children.
child, you can get it. Please do not
As much as I would’ve liked, mar-
allow yourself to be intimidated by
riage isn’t in the cards for me yet and
what these “friends” are sharing,
maybe not ever, which I’ve accepted.
and do not seek their validation. I’m
I have decided to not allow my
not implying you should distance
single status to prevent me from
yourself and end the relationships,
becoming a mother. I have spent
because you may welcome some of
their advice in the future. Remem-
years hearing my friends and fam-
J eanne
ily tell me how great being a parent
ber, this journey is one you have
P hilliPs
thoughtfully chosen.
is and how I’m missing out. In fact,
ADVICE
Dear Abby: My husband is an
there was a time or two when I felt
only child. When his parents retired,
certain people were trying to make
his mother, who was always social,
me feel inadequate. After careful
stayed home with his dad because he wanted
consideration, I chose to utilize donor sperm.
her home with him. Because of this, she spent
I am now 40 and expecting my first child,
a great deal of time texting my husband.
and I couldn’t be happier. The only thing I
My father-in-law passed away recently,
find upsetting is that those same friends who
and the texting has increased. It goes on all
spent years telling me how great motherhood
day, every day, even after we go to bed. I
is and asking when I would have children,
want to be sensitive to the fact that everyone
now speak of nothing but the tribulations
is getting used to the new normal without my
of motherhood — the pain of delivery, the
father-in-law, but the constant phone buzzing
fatigue, the expense, and how they couldn’t
and interruptions are getting old.
do it alone, etc.
My husband is defensive about the tex-
I’m an educated woman in a profession
ting. We have a happy marriage, and I want
that pays well, and I consider myself to be
to keep it that way. How should I handle this?
fortunate. I didn’t decide to become a sin-
gle mother on a whim. I don’t know what to
— Overloaded in Oklahoma
expect but want to think positive and enjoy
Dear Overloaded: Your husband, rather
than you, should handle his mother. Because
my pregnancy. I’m confused and hurt by my
your father-in-law’s death is recent, she may
friends’ reactions now that I am pregnant. Is
need time to adjust to being alone. If her con-
it the pregnancy hormones, or do I need to
stant, intrusive texting persists beyond a rea-
distance myself from these friends? — Con-
founded in North Carolina
sonable amount of time, he should suggest
Dear Confounded: Parenting involves
that she cut back. He should also encourage
her to re-establish the friendships and activi-
many emotions — some of them conflict-
ing. It’s a joy, an adventure, a challenge and a
ties she gave up for her husband and, if neces-
sary, consider joining a grief support group.
commitment. The experience is also an indi-
vidual one.
Her doctor or religious adviser can suggest
one that would be appropriate for her.
You are a mature person and financially
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 27, 1919
While sundry local patrons of the Hagen-
beck-Wallace circus were being entertained at
a “quiet” nut shell game in a dressing room of
one of the side shows yesterday a little event not
in the advertising was pulled off. A man with
a wicked looking gun entered the tent, cov-
ered the dealer, took his money and then pro-
ceeded to rob the others present. Some say he
bagged $500 or $600 all told. He then exited,
leaving the bunch with their hands still in the
air. Reports state that only a select few were
invited to attend the game and that they were
first charmed by the announcement about a
hootch dance. Following the dance a sure thing
game was introduced. According to Chief of
Police Roberts he has had various complaints
as to short changing and he is plain spoken in
condemnation of the circus attaches.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 27, 1969
The Gwyn Watkinses have four unusual
plants growing among their colorful zinnias.
Early this spring, Mrs. Watkins sent east for
some cotton seed, and the four healthy plants
came from those seeds. The blossoms, when
fully opened, are an ivory white. They’re
hoping to produce some cotton balls.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 27, 1994
There’s no end in sight to the battle over
siting of a solid waste transfer station on Air-
port Hill. Negotiations have failed to muster
a solution to the nagging dilemma involv-
ing Pendleton Sanitary Service, Pendair
Citizens Committee and the city of Pendle-
ton. The discord derives from the proposed
refuse station — Pendleton Sanitary wants
to place it amid a residential area, the area’s
residents adamantly oppose it. The Pendair
Committee had offered to back away on
condition that it be reimbursed for attorney
fees and the costs associated with the fight
to keep the transfer station out of their neigh-
borhood. The Sanitary Service is willing to
relocate to a site along Rieth Road, so the
reimbursement issue appears to be the hur-
dle blocking a solution.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On August 27, 2008,
Barack Obama was nom-
inated for president by the
Democratic National Con-
vention in Denver.
In 1859, Edwin L. Drake
drilled the first successful oil
well in the United States, at
Titusville, Pa.
In 1928, the Kellogg-Bri-
and Pact was signed in Paris,
outlawing war and providing
for the peaceful settlement
of disputes.
In 1949, a violent white
mob prevented an outdoor
concert headlined by Paul
Robeson from taking place
near Peekskill, New York.
(The concert was held eight
days later.)
In 1963, author, jour-
nalist and civil rights activ-
ist W.E.B. Du Bois died in
Accra, Ghana, at age 95.
In
1964,
President
Lyndon Baines Johnson
accepted his party’s nom-
ination for a term in his
own right, telling the Dem-
ocratic National Convention
in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
“Let us join together in giv-
ing every American the full-
est life which he can hope
for.”
In 1975, Haile Selassie,
the last emperor of Ethio-
pia’s 3,000-year-old monar-
chy, died in Addis Ababa at
age 83 almost a year after
being overthrown.
In 1979, British war hero
Lord Louis Mountbatten and
three other people, includ-
ing his 14-year-old grand-
son Nicholas, were killed off
the coast of Ireland in a boat
explosion claimed by the
Irish Republican Army.
In 1989, the first U.S.
commercial satellite rocket
was launched from Cape
Canaveral, Florida — a
Delta booster carrying a
British communications sat-
ellite, the Marcopolo 1.
In 2005, Coastal resi-
dents jammed freeways and
gas stations as they rushed
to get out of the way of Hur-
ricane Katrina, which was
headed toward New Orleans.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Author Lady Antonia Fraser
is 87. Actress Tuesday Weld
is 76. Actor Paul Reubens is
67. Gospel singer Yolanda
Adams is 58. Movie direc-
tor Tom Ford (Film: “Noc-
turnal Animals”) is 58. Rap
musician Bobo (Cypress
Hill) is 52. Rapper Mase is
42. Actress-singer Demetria
McKinney is 41. Actor Pat-
rick J. Adams is 38. Actress
Karla Mosley is 38. Actress
Amanda Fuller is 35. Singer
Mario is 33. Actress Alexa
PenaVega is 31. Actor Ellar
Coltrane is 25.
Thought for Today:
“Reality can destroy the
dream; why shouldn’t the
dream destroy reality?” —
G.E. Moore, British philos-
opher (1873-1958).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE