DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am unclear about the etiquette for placing buffet tongs down after using them. Like 10% to 15% of the population, I am left-handed. Most often, buffet tongs are turned with the ...

Miss Manners has some very near and dear relatives who are left-handed, but if you are suggesting that they are being discriminated against, she cannot see how. If right-handed and left-handed people ...

In her latest advice, Miss Manners covers treating household staff as employees rather than guests, the impropriety of soliciting thanks, and other everyday etiquette dilemmas. She advises offering ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I read some of the questions sent to you, it is jarring when the writer includes financial information about someone else. They write things such as “... and they can well ...

A dear friend and I live several hours away from each other, so to keep in touch, we speak often on the telephone. He works ...