Dear Miss Manners: We have a small half-bathroom downstairs that is mainly used by guests. As a courtesy, I usually have period products readily available to visitors. For larger gatherings, I’ve had ...
In old-school California, dinner came with unspoken rules, polite habits, and family routines that would totally surprise ...
Students with the Sylacauga High School chapter of FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) recently received ...
Students with the Sylacauga High School chapter of FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) recently received ...
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 ...
My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.
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 ...
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students lead efforts to support an on-campus food pantry and address food ...
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 ...
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to politely avoiding small talk with strangers in public places.