I love being a mom, don’t get me wrong. And I love my sons. But this drives me bananas. I’m not these people’s mom!

I invited a friend to a concert more than a month ahead of the performance. She said she'd have to get back to me. Two weeks ...

I asked a man sitting in front of me at a college musical to remove his distracting baseball cap, which he did. My wife later ...

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

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a young adult who bought a home in one of the highest-cost resort areas of the country – a purchase that strains me financially, but is well worth it. While I love my friends ...

GENTLE READER: Decent people do not, as you said, admonish people directly. Nor do they go looking for trouble. If the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I started going gray at age 14, so I’ve gotten a lot of comments about my appearance over the last 20 years -- shockingly, ALL from women. From my friends’ moms (“You’re ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Am I the one who is in the wrong here? When I invited several friends to dinner recently, I was shamed and ...

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

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Some years ago, my uncle, having never met my then-boyfriend, made a series of racist jokes about him. (My boyfriend is part-Asian.) These jokes were made on my blog ...