DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a tremor in my hands, worse in my dominant hand, and it affects my table manners. In public, I try to choose foods that are relatively easy for me to handle, but I often have ...

Dear Miss Manners: One of the highlights of our trip to Paris was an opera performance at the Palais Garnier. The opera, “Medee” by Cherubini, is in excess of four hours, with two brief intermissions.

Every parent wants their child to be civilized, intelligent, and respected by others. These things are not limited to studies ...

(She) called me to tell me she was diabetic and couldn’t eat them. I felt her phone call was rude and unnecessary.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Once a month, I make a four-gallon pot of soup for my small church community. When planning the soup, I ...

Dear Miss Manners: Is it OK to have 50 people in your backyard, eating, dancing and socializing, and then when it’s time for you and your family to eat, to come inside and eat at the table ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a tremor in my hands, worse in my dominant hand, and it affects my table manners. In public, I try to choose foods that are relatively easy for me to handle, but I often ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My boyfriend insists that when eating “sloppy food” such as spaghetti, it is acceptable to lean one’s head down to the food to avoid a mess, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My niece, in her 30s, has now earned a graduate degree. While I provided her a generous check when she graduated from undergraduate college many years ago, I’m not quite sure ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the dilemma of consuming refreshments at Paris's Palais Garnier after a fellow patron's outburst.

GENTLE READER: Deliberately ignoring someone who is speaking to you is a high insult, one that is tantamount to severing ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: As a preteen, I was told by someone that it was rude to eat one food on my plate at a time -- that I was supposed to move around my plate, eating bites of each item in succession.