GENTLE READER: Yes: Go to your younger daughter’s for Thanksgiving on Thursday, and tell her you would be delighted to plan ...

Their daughter just bought a home and wants to host Thanksgiving this year. Dear Miss Manners: While acknowledging gratitude ...

But as your mild little response is ignored, Miss Manners will have to provide you with something clearer: “Thank you, but I am doing the entire dinner, and I can’t serve anything else.” Or: “Please ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My housemate is male, 73 and retired. He rises in the morning and spends his day in a ratty terrycloth ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My housemate is male, 73 and retired. He rises in the morning and spends his day in a ratty terrycloth ...

But as your mild little response is ignored, Miss Manners will have to provide you with something clearer: “Thank you, but I am doing the entire dinner, and I can’t serve anything else.” Or: “Please ...

They generously gave us their own bedroom, which included the aforesaid chamber pot. Necessity compelled us to use it.

Dear Miss Manners: I discovered what looked like a batch of pruned vines in my backyard. There is some ivy that grows on the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Each year, Halloween heralds my own personal horror: the season during which my family harasses me to provide them with a list of items that I would like for Christmas. I abhor this ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Each year, Halloween heralds my own personal horror: the season during which my family harasses me to provide them with a list of items that I would like for Christmas. Miss Manners ...

Dear Miss Manners: Each year, Halloween heralds my own personal horror: the season during which my family harasses me to provide them with a list of items that I would like for Christmas. I abhor this ...

I’m frequently in meetings where a colleague is so long-winded, we're not able to finish the business at hand.