Miss Manners suggests that you keep the friendship away from overnight visits. Unless, of course, you want to act as hosts ...

For your sake, Miss Manners hopes not. She suggests that you create a menu, at least 75% of which is OK for you to eat. Then, just for fun, do not tell your curious family member which 75% it is. DEAR ...

Dear Miss Manners: We have some friends who live eight hours away, and they have been after us for the past few years to ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper way to eat pitted cherries? Cutting them up to remove the pits seems excessive, but ...

Miss Manners suggests that you keep the friendship away from overnight visits. Unless, of course, you want to act as hosts ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper way to eat cherries with pits? Cutting them up to remove the pits seems excessive, but ...

We stopped at a fast-food restaurant to eat. It felt disrespectful to me that we were ... it does not necessarily make them ...

Miss Manners suggests that you keep the friendship away from overnight visits. Unless, of course, you want to act as hosts ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A few years ago, I developed a gluten intolerance. While I am blessed that it isn’t full-blown celiac ...

However, we just learned that our companion intends to bring her extremely unruly “comfort” poodle -- not only to the opera, ...

GENTLE READER: It is a very different thing to live with someone -- even temporarily -- than just to know them socially. Your ...