Social rules shift faster than most of us realize. What passed as proper behavior a generation ago can feel awkward or even patronizing today. Contemporary etiquette now focuses less on rigid ...

Email etiquette rules change as fast as technology—make sure you stay on top of them!

Don’t laugh but there is a socially proper way to have the flu. And Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of the doyen of proper etiquette, Emily Post, has put together the flu etiquette ground rules.

Dianne Isbell has written an etiquette column for the Belleville News-Democrat since 1987. She served as director of protocol for U.S. Air Force Communications Command before retiring in 2001. Derik ...