My reaction has been a strained smile and some breezy comment about how the piece was particularly time-consuming, etc.

Friends make me feel as if I’m being greedy or unreasonable. I don’t like the implication — or their hushed comments.

One friend showed up very clearly ill, with a red, runny nose and a pack of tissues, saying, “It’s just a cold! I feel fine.” ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to managing food allergies when dining at someone ...

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

"I’m expected to go along with this farce and play the Wedding Guest: dressing up, sitting through it all, congratulating ...

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

But Miss Manners remembers a time when it was considered ladylike to wear short white cotton gloves in summertime. It was ...

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