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

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

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 ...

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

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

GENTLE READER: If you are able to decipher “Stay in our bedroom or you’re an ugly American” from a hand gesture, Miss Manners ...

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

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: A few of my cousins have gotten married recently, and they requested that no children attend their weddings, aside from the ones performing the roles of ring bearer and flower girl.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My ex-husband and I have been divorced for over 20 years. Neither of us has remarried. Miss Manners: This is a real letter about staying in a house without a toilet Miss Manners: ...