Dear Miss Manners: I belong to a local social media group that lets people loan and borrow items. I recently posted a query asking to borrow a piece of equipment for an upcoming surgery, and ...

Advice Miss Manners: Little miss sundress revealing more than I’m comfortable with, and the neighbors notice Published: Jun. 26, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

Miss Manners suspects it is the fussy name and the embellishments that condemn handkerchiefs as frivolous.

Miss Manners feels certain that you will not have to get much further than the second sentence before your friend realizes what she is asking, starts to panic and retreats.

Miss Manners: She keeps saying we need to go out and get crazy. I absolutely do not want to. Every time she brings it up, I get very uncomfortable ...

Miss Manners: I let my child pick her party guests, and she picked wrong How do I persuade her to include the neighbor she deems 'rude'?

We’re only allowed to buy our grandchild gifts from a strictly curated list and it’s taken the joy out of it; Miss Manners pushes back on cancer as a “war.” ...

Miss Manners: You’re an adult now, so please stop referring to me as ‘Mrs. Smith’ Published: Jun. 11, 2025, 1:00 p.m. "Miss Manners" Judith Martin Courtesy Andrews McMeel Universal By Judith ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My brother and I celebrated the birthday of a close friend with several others. The dinner was at a restaurant, beginning at 5 p.m. (stated time). We had difficulty finding ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Relative to the longstanding tradition of men proposing marriage to women, and in this day of slow (but hopefully inexorable) movement towards gender equity, I wonder if the ...

Life & Culture Miss Manners: Friends laughed it off when I suggested cutting back on my many volunteer projects Published: May. 28, 2025, 6:00 a.m.

When someone permanently tattoos themselves at the tender age of 18 or 19, nothing in my being thinks congratulations or praise is in order.