I work as a nurse in the ICU in a major metropolitan hospital. As many people know, hospitals have relaxed their rules about the length of a visitor’s visit, have done away with age limits for ...

At any given moment in a busy restaurant, a sizzling fajita platter is being hoisted high above a server’s head, weaving through a maze of tables and chairs. It’s a ...

While I consider these outings for just our group, one of my neighbors (who is single, as am I) always invites a friend or two of hers to join us. No one else in the group does this. The other women ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When my mother passed away some years ago, my brother and his wife placed a stuffed black cat toy in her casket. My mother had owned several black cats.

If you live long enough, you bear witness to small, subtle changes in how to deal with someone who wants your time and attention.

Especially when there’s money in them, and especially when the gift goes to their children. I wouldn’t want them to be uncomfortable or embarrassed.

But the link between not talking to the neighbors and the breakdown in civility is cause and effect. Why be considerate of someone you barely know? Miss Manners’ solution would ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I have a difference of opinion about emails sent from “do not reply” addresses. I say that, in principle, they display poor manners. They are akin to saying something to ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to handling neighbors who make changes to shared ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I have a difference of opinion about emails sent from “do not reply” addresses. I say that, in principle, they display poor manners. They are akin to saying something to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I discovered what looked like a batch of pruned vines in my backyard. There is some ivy that grows on the walls shared by several of us in proximity, and it appears the neighbors ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I discovered what looked like a batch of pruned vines in my backyard. There is some ivy that grows on the walls shared by several of us in proximity, and it appears the neighbors ...