I was torn between amusement and pity. Assuming I could not attend, how would one direct regrets to the Dear Departed?

DEAR HARRIETTE: At the end of the summer, I went back home to celebrate my mom’s birthday. Since I got married and moved, I ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to whether you should feel slighted when your ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

(If I tell her) it might cause her so much fear that she may never want to swim again ... . ... if I don’t tell her, she ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I no longer give big birthday or holiday gifts. I do this because a family member died after I had ...

Dear Miss Manners: I no longer give big birthday or holiday gifts. I do this because a family member died after I had ...

Dear Abby advises a reader on whether or not he should tell his elderly neighbor about the alligator in the lake they swim in ...

Claude hatched at a Louisiana alligator farm and came to a swamp exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 2008. Photo by Gayle Laird from the California ...

GENTLE READER: No one should be challenging the relative paltriness of your presents. The ones you named actually sound ...

A California museum is celebrating the hatching 30 years ago of its resident albino alligator, named Claude, officials said. Claude hatched at a Louisiana alligator farm and came to a swamp exhibit at ...