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

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?

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 ...

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 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 ...

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge (such as an emailed “I wondered if you had received this,” with a second copy of the invitation) — and ...

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

In old-school California, dinner came with unspoken rules, polite habits, and family routines that would totally surprise ...

After 22 wonderful years, I’ve decided to take the exciting and terrifying step of leaving in order to try to build something new.

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.