DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the rule on inviting someone to accompany you to a play that’s close to being sold out, and they don’t respond to your invitation in a timely way?

Miss Manners agrees that ultimatums with friends can be awkward, but in this case, a time limit would have been helpful. Or ...

A pair of Adidas tennis shoes bearing the tennis player’s name and signature in gold ink. To make no mistake, the shoes were ...

Jul. 2—"What can I bring?" That's a question you'll be asked, or you will ask, since we are well into potluck season and Minnesotans never arrive empty-handed, especially at one of those. Most ...

We received an invitation. We had been involved in the girls’ lives since they were 10. We always tried to treat them equally ...

Given my insecurities about the invitation, I decided that instead of my usual schmoozing, I would do lots of observing, like ...

Some parents still find thank-you notes important, while others don't. Parenting experts say teaching kids to express ...

If you're tasked with planning a bridal shower for a loved one, there are a number of different elements to consider. From where you want to host the celebration and what the theme will be to how many ...

Though they're enjoying a resurgence right now, dinner clubs aren't exactly new. "Supper clubs go back to the 1930s, born out of the prohibition era as a ...

I told the US President, thank you for the invitation. It is very important for me to go to the land of Mahaprabhu and hence I politely declined his invitation and your love and devotion to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After several decades of typing on keyboards, I have lost my ability to write nicely by hand. My solution is to send electronic notes -- for expressing appreciation, recognizing ...

Thank you for your letter. You bring up an interesting point, which is that reciprocation doesn’t always come in the form we expect.