Thanks for your comments.

Everything on the guitar is original. It's been played more in the past 30 days than in the past 2 years. I kind of figured the strings need to be replaced so thanks for the suggestion.

There's a Guitar Center store close to me so I have run it by there for an inspection and maybe test drive other models. I'm 6' 180, but the guitar seems gigantic and awkward and if I have the narrower strings that might be part of the problem.

I guess I need to do some investigating.