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Byline: Miss Manners Dear Miss Manners: Many years ago, I learned the usefulness of carrying an extra handkerchief to weddings and funerals. I now do so all the time, to [...]

Byline: Jacob Brogan Packing your lunch. The very phrase suggests unwelcome labor, less a matter of preparing for work than a kind of effort in its own right. Maybe the [...]

Byline: Carolyn Hax Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: My girlfriend tells me it's perfectly okay to have people over and not clue them in to who else will [...]

Byline: Jura KonciusDaniel Post Senning, 41, the fifth generation to write 'Emily Post's Etiquette,' now in its 19th edition, does not engage with his iPhone at the dinner table.But many [...]

Byline: Miss Manners Dear Miss Manners: I have been with my boyfriend for seven years. It seems that every time I bring up the goals in this relationship, and ask [...]

Byline: Miss Manners Dear Miss Manners: At a casual dining restaurant (a national chain), the waitress bringing several drinks to our table -- without a tray, for some reason -- [...]

Byline: Amy Dickinson Dear Amy: A year ago my husband and I went to visit his relatives for a week. At the time I was pregnant with my first baby.Toward [...]

Byline: DAVID EDDIEDAMAGE CONTROLThe question My colleague invited me to dinner with partners. Normally, I wouldn't have attended this event, but my colleague thought it would be good to include [...]

Byline: Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM - There aren't that many cultures where putting a shoe on the dining room table is acceptable behavior, but for the Japanese there is clear etiquette [...]

Dear Miss Manners: If a friend spends four years talking about every detail in the construction of a vacation home, then describes all the fun of having friends and relatives [...]

We are a family of four siblings. We always got along pretty well, then our luck ran out. Last year, Siblings 1 and 3 (in birth order) had a huge [...]

At the end of lunch at a nice restaurant, one of the two friends I was dining with noticed that the couple at the next table was leaving behind three-quarters [...]

PARIS -- MY father-in-law, an anthropologist, likes to talk about the time he ate dog penis. He was visiting a remote town in South Korea, and the mayor invited him [...]