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 other relatives didn ...

Feeling at home in your own life does not mean being happy all the time. It means that your habits allow you to feel a sense ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin gives a polite way to respond after a reader is asked about a ...

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

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 ...

From an Ethan Hawke thriller to Olivia Wilde's comedy to a horror movie set inside a children's TV show, these are the best ...

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?

Moving in together or starting married life brings a wave of excitement. You picture shared breakfasts, movie marathons, and a permanent slumber party with your favorite person. Reality often hits ...

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 ...

Bryan Cranston recounted the traumatic upending of his home life when he was 11 years old. The 'Breaking Bad' actor went to live with his grandparents after his father abandoned the family and his ...