If apologizing to this culprit seems counterintuitive, Miss Manners asks you to consider the alternative: Do you want to be ...

"Is there a way to gently encourage the hospital staff to be less concerned with the status of the area that the patients are ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was on a tennis team and was eliminated during a tournament. I was supposed to play two matches: I ...

I pickled the vegetables, which were sourced from a farm stand. I baked the bread from wheat milled locally, and the bologna ...

The captain had indicated that she was going to play me, but then she didn’t. I’m not a bad player, so I am not sure why.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Someone I know messaged me about 5:30 p.m., requesting that I call them that evening as they had good news ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was on a tennis team and was eliminated during a tournament. I was supposed to play two matches: I played one and won, but then got injured and bowed out of my second match. I ...

GENTLE READER: The last time Miss Manners checked, tennis was played with a single ball, so let’s try and keep our eyes on that and cut out some of the weaving back and forth.

Miss Manners chooses to believe that you only made an unfortunate word choice, not that you believe that it is an honor for a lady to be married, and that the title “Mrs.” reflects that.

I had no input as to how big this shower has become, and being asked — no, told — to pay for it strikes me as inappropriate.

Dear Eric: I am a middle-aged woman, who, for most of her life was the center of the social scene. I entertained in my home, ...

Somebody threw a bottle out of a window and the broken glass popped my wheelchair tires. Don’t I have a right to be pissed ...