Our friends graciously offered us use of their rustic lakeside cabin, as they no longer can travel there themselves. We had a disappointing time and cut our stay short due to the terrible odor, ...

We cut our stay short due to the terrible odor, primitive accommodations and insufficient space and privately vowed to never return.

I hold formal dinner parties with limited place settings. But there are friends who never respond to my invitations and show up anyway. What’s the best way to accommodate them?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed — china, crystal, linen, silver — that ...

Miss Manners hopes, however, that you will not otherwise dumb down your charming, seated dinner parties because of a few outlaws. We, the purveyors of fish knives and strawberry forks, are a dying ...

Jean Toynbee, who has died aged 105, was a GP in Oxford and rural North Yorkshire, the wife of the artist Lawrence Toynbee, a ...

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

Our daughter-in-law overheard a discussion I had with my husband about her tantrums. Now she and our son have cut us off and won’t even let us see our grandson.

There are certain truths we hold dear when it comes to good manners. A gracious host makes their guests feel welcome, and a ...

Expat life can be starkly different if you have children. You’re going through life in a different country through the ...

It doesn’t seem like you’re being heard. Because what you described in your letter is someone whose candle is being burned at ...

"He was just gone," Cranston said on the 'Table Manners' podcast ...