DEAR MISS MANNERS: After a meal at a restaurant, my mother is in the habit of vigorously rubbing both of her hands with one ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After a meal at a restaurant, my mother is in the habit of vigorously rubbing both of her hands with one ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: On our neighborhood app, one of my neighbors cautioned that two young men had recently knocked on her door ...

GENTLE READER: You could have said just that — and then privately searched your internet history for hints of why he would ...

A reader gets a social media message from a past acquaintance, who researched his “challenging” career history. What would ...

Your doctor’s practice has probably survived without your encouragement. And Miss Manners supposes that the people who ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I enjoy having friends and acquaintances from different walks of life, and have found unexpected kinship with people who hold beliefs very different from my own. In other words, I ...

Notice that Miss Manners does not suggest saying any version of the common (but not etiquette-sanctioned ... Are white-painted fingernails and toes out of line as a wedding guest? GENTLE READER: Yes, ...

Dear Miss Manners: I have now been to three (!) weddings where I found out that the couple was already married and just going ...

I have now been to three (!) weddings where I found out that the couple was already married, and just going through the ...