If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...

On occasion, it will start raining when I am in a crowd — at the ballpark, for example, or waiting for the light to change on ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Lately it has seemed that the phrases “We’re pregnant” and “They’re pregnant” have been subsumed into acceptable usage.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...

GENTLE READER: While she agrees that neither pretending not to hear nor running and hiding are good solutions, Miss Manners ...

I respond in a cordial, or at least a civil, way to friends and neighbors who ask me questions about my garden while I am ...

If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case ...

A letter writer is wondering if it’s selfish to use their umbrella in public places when others around them don’t have one to ...

If the children are of an age to understand, one can take satisfaction in explaining the lesson in the car on the way home -- ...

Although I’m not a doctor, last time I checked, only women get pregnant. There is no biological reality where a woman and her ...

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