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 ...
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?
Going on a first date can be exciting. You’re getting ready wondering how the night is going to go, and whether or not you will hit it off; and while many couples do, others - not so much.
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 ...
Funny dogs Maymo, Potpie, and Indie have just sat down to eat a glorious breakfast when the pancakes start to get 'fresh' with the curious canines-knocking everything off the table and generally ...
Actor Bryan Cranston is opening up about his father having abandoned his family when he was 11 and how it impacted his life.
Cranston's father, Joe, died in 2014, but he lived to see his children welcome him back into their lives, the actor told ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a freelance journalist who has been living, off and on, in a private room at a hostel off the beaten ...
Miss Manners says, "There are ... a number of ways to voice your displeasure to a wider audience online, but that will ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am getting married in a traditional church ceremony. My father, who will be giving me away, has refused to wear a tuxedo on the grounds that it is a “monkey suit,” even though all ...
Every Saturday Night Live fan has their own opinions about which hosts sucked, but some were true nightmares to work with ...
Times are certainly changing when it comes to what’s accepted as doctrine in the world of manners and etiquette. One thing ...