To be clear, Miss Manners has never liked sending money as a present. But the thought of a young child who has been used to ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I discussed our 25th anniversary and mentioned Hawaii as a possibility. He reached out to his ...

A coastal day trip promised sea air and quiet sands. What arrived instead felt like a postcard from a different decade. The ...

Brother had placed a stuffed animal in their mother’s casket and then somehow gave it to the letter writer for Christmas.

Miss Manners needs some clarification on the mechanics of this. She is presuming that the casket was not closed at the ...

To be clear, Miss Manners has never liked sending money as a present. But the thought of a young child who has been used to ...

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: When my mother passed away some years ago, my brother and his wife placed a stuffed black cat toy in her ...

Especially when there’s money in them, and especially when the gift goes to their children. I wouldn’t want them to be uncomfortable or embarrassed.

Halloween under the Pisces moon pulls thin the veil between worlds -- spirit and physical, regular-clothed and costumed, the workaday and the fun of Friday night. Candles flicker like eyes from the ...