DEAR MISS MANNERS: Should I be “presentable” when sitting out on the back deck of our townhouse? It is only visible from two ...

Just drink the liquid and throw away the rest? Use the straw as a single chopstick to dredge the fruit up to the rim?

I appreciate the kindness, but I resent the implication that a woman alone cannot afford to pay for her own meals.

GENTLE READER: “If you could please use my legal name on any official documents, that would save us all a lot of confusion ...

Then, just one time to show goodwill, offer to go out to lunch instead. Miss Manners cannot guarantee that your friend will ...

They’ve even insisted that I am still “thinking” about changing my name and that they will use this in the interim.

I have an old friend who lives an hour from me. The last two times she has visited me, she has arrived at 9 a.m. I assumed she came early because she wanted to spend the whole day. Both times, around ...

Even if such responses are socially acceptable as “white lies,” I’m concerned they could be more harmful in the long run.

One woman would say, “I know you said no (ingredient), but once you taste this, you can take an antihistamine and it will be ...

My mother, who is close to 85, Every time she sees me, she tells me how “cute” I look, and asks where I got the top I’m ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.