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, ...

If you travel down Commonwealth Avenue just past Plaza Midwood, you know Lefty. A ten-foot werewolf wearing swim trunks or ...

These brothers are too funny.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A good friend asked me to join her and a few other people for lunch. This was not something I wanted to do, so I claimed to have conflicts on the first two dates she suggested. Then ...

Dear Heloise: In response to Diane T. in Arizona, I had the opposite happen to me. I had been going to a hairdresser for many, many years. It was my hairdresser who started to not be on time. My time ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When did people become so insecure that they take offense at pretty much everything? I’ve noticed a huge shift. Compliments given by strangers are now considered an insult or an ...

For more than four decades, Judith Martin, better known as “Miss Manners,” has guided readers through life’s most awkward social dilemmas, offering sharp wit, classic etiquette principles and ...

“I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” — John Wayne “The Shootist” Jeanie Beeman, an elderly ...

As shoppers flood stores across the country during the year’s biggest shopping season, retail workers are bracing for what many describe as the most demanding — and often demoralizing — stretch of the ...

The workplace is an etiquette minefield, it turns out. The Wall Street Journal’s quiz on office manners stoked much debate and some grousing about what’s polite behavior in the modern workplace. And ...

As shoppers flood stores across the country during the year’s biggest shopping season, retail workers are bracing for what many describe as the most demanding — and often demoralizing — stretch of the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is a ride on a motorcycle a good idea for a first date? My date showed up carrying two helmets and wearing a leather jacket. I had to put my arms around him so as not to fall off ...