Dear Eric: Recently I decided not to attend a holiday gathering with family members I’ve joined for decades, and instead ...

Dear Eric: Recently I decided not to attend a holiday gathering with family members I’ve joined for decades, and instead ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My daughter has vitiligo and is adjusting to the changes in her skin and hair.

How can I respond with dignity when people insist on defining my husband by a mistake from decades ago, instead of by the ...

It is currently more polite to say “No problem” or “No worries,” which imply that whatever was done, the doer was happy to do ...

I can’t figure out if they still invite me so I know they aren’t trying to exclude me, or if they think that if I only tried ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I live in a large city and take public transportation almost daily. I am 80 years old. The busses and ...

GENTLE READER: It was another Gentle Reader who once came up with the polite way to handle this situation. The idea is to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Here’s a moment that has bothered me for decades. When I was an unworldly 20-something male visiting ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was at a store with narrow aisles. I turned down an aisle where there were two women with carts. The ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to reader claiming traditional phrase now implies ...

Not that Miss Manners considers having children a luxury. It should be available to all, but it is highly expensive, and the ...