I think it’s important that we hold each other up, acknowledge each other’s efforts, let each other know we’ve still “got it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am one of a group of friends who have known each other for 30+ years, from early middle age into what ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When my mother passed away some years ago, my brother and his wife placed a stuffed black cat toy in her casket. My mother had owned several black cats.

Dear Miss Manners: I enjoy having friends and acquaintances from different walks of life, and have found unexpected kinship with people who hold beliefs very different from my own. In other words, I ...