A reader is insulted by friends he invites to his annual holiday party whose RSVPs make his event sound like a burden to ...

Elizabeth Bishop, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, began contributing poetry to The New Yorker in 1940. She died in 1979. It wasn’t so much his conviction that upset him as the fact that he ...

My brother and his family have never been to her birthday party. They do not acknowledge her with a phone call, a card or a ...

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

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 4-year-old daughter has a June birthday, and we have a party for her with family every year. Due to her ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was dining solo, and a family with two small children was seated in my section. One toddler decided to treat the restaurant to prolonged, high-pitched shrieks. I didn’t want ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My children were born six years apart. I had a miscarriage in between their births, which is no one’s business.

But there’s something about it that feels a little condescending, like I’m not a separate person from my children. Miss Manners: How quiet do I have to be in my own backyard to accommodate the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was dining solo, and a family with two small children was seated in my section. One toddler decided to treat the restaurant to prolonged, high-pitched shrieks. I didn’t want ...