DEAR MISS MANNERS: One of our friends is very seriously ill. I hosted a party and assumed they would not be able to attend, ...

Miss Manners admits you might be in technical compliance were you to force them to change course by stopping in place. But ...

Then, I realized she was still looking at my sleeve with an anxious, guilty expression, and she started brushing at the spot ...

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; ...

When I close the door for privacy, it feels as if I am rudely shutting the door in the guests' faces. When the door remains ...

GENTLE READER: Please remind Miss Manners to tell the business world to stop getting into etiquette, because they take things that everyone understood and muddy them up beyond all recognition.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m a physician, so I am used to people addressing me as “Dr. Jones.” That includes both patients and ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: We are holding a celebration of ... Does a “celebration of life” require etiquette adjustments from a funeral, which it is increasingly replacing? Funerals used to be ...

GENTLE READER: Please remind Miss Manners to tell the business world to stop getting into etiquette, because they take things that everyone understood and muddy them up beyond all recognition.