Dave Barry has been making me laugh out loud for years — reading his retrospective on 2024 was a real pleasure ( Dave Barry’s ...

Miss Manners considers it the height of poor dinner guest behavior to solicit business. She suggests that next time he starts ...

GENTLE READER: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, ...

Anyway, she’s been asking me to call her “Mom.” As I am extremely close to my own mother, I’m just not comfortable with this.

I’ve been with my fiance for 16 years. I have a good relationship with his mother, though I wouldn’t call us best friends.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am throwing a 50th birthday party for my spouse that will include lunch, games and an open bar, which ...

GENTLE READER: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, ...

GENTLE READER: Doing so, and touting the open bar as a surprise, do betray some grandstanding -- drawing attention to how ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am throwing a 50th birthday party for my spouse that will include lunch, games and an open bar, which ...

A reader who is uncomfortable with her recently widowed mother-in-law’s request to be called “mom” seeks alternatives and a ...

GENTLE READER: Blame your mother. Moms are used to taking the fall for their children, and if you are as close as you say, ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin suggests blaming the woman's own mother to avoid offending her ...