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Add shimmer and shine to your holiday tree with this set of 15 metallic paper Christmas ornaments in a variety of shapes. $34.95 at Crate & Barrel.

If you haven’t already started decorating for Christmas, get to it. People who decorate for the holidays are happier and appear friendlier to their neighbors, according to research listed in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Dear Amy: My best friend’s mother can no longer drive, so they are selling her car. I asked her how much they were asking for the car.

The 2021 women’s U.S. rowing teams include powerhouses Charlotte Buck, Kendall Chase and Olivia Coffee and single sculler Kara Kohler. If they have a stroke of good luck, they will do better on the world stage than U.S. rowers did in Tokyo. There, for the first time ever, not a single U.S. crew (male or female) who participated in the Olympic regatta came home with a medal around their necks.

Dear Readers: Instead of cramming everything into your suitcase, you can pack it more efficiently if you take the following five steps. 1.

Dear Amy: I’ve been married for 23 years to a really mellow guy who had always been very private. We haven’t had a good physical relationship in a decade because of his medical issues.

Dear Heloise: I have a suggestion for those who like to cut out newspaper clippings of events. First, don’t clip it out of the page, because you lose the date, publication and other information. I was looking at my own birth announcement in the paper from 1964 and was stunned to see the prices of things such as groceries and shoes. It was like a piece of history had been saved for me. But it also verified the time of my birth (2:43 a.m.), the name of the newspaper and city where I was born. Since I was adopted later, this was very important information for me that my birth mother had saved and passed on to my adoptive parents.

Lee Richardson Zoo is home to two sisters who sometimes have guests asking, “what kind of animal is that”? Guesses include, rabbits, baby kangaroos, squirrels, and more. Thankfully, their habitat features a sign with the answer; the small, often bouncing, mammals sharing a space with the alpacas, are Patagonian cavy.

Dear Readers: Between festive activities and family gatherings, the holiday season can get hectic and rushed. So take note of these important fire safety hints that every family member should know.

Dear Amy: I never wanted to marry or have children. When my husband proposed I knew it was right to say yes (no regrets).