DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of mine has been keeping in touch with me by sending text messages that contain one sentence only: “How are you, Jen?” Related Articles Miss Manners: I’m ...

Related stories Now, I miss having reasons for all of us to get together Looking back on all of the weddings and hen dos, I regret how petty and bitter I felt. I wish I'd appreciated how special ...

As offensive as that would be, Miss Manners cannot help seeing that it would come from a legitimate objection. First, that they were having a private conversation, even if you couldn’t help ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of mine has been keeping in touch with me by sending text messages that contain one sentence only: “How are you, Jen?” He never shares anything about himself ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of mine has been keeping in touch with me by sending text messages that contain one sentence only: “How are you, Jen?” He never shares anything about himself ...

GENTLE READER: No, you need only demonstrate them, as you have done. Miss Manners would like to think that these friends will have now learned that your invitations -- and patience -- are not ...

“happy birthday mama ️ i miss you every day,” Butler captioned the post. In the photo, a young, blonde-haired Butler could be seen wrapping his arms around his mom’s neck as she smiled at ...

Alongside a throwback snap of himself as a child with his mom, he wrote on Instagram: "happy birthday mama [heart emoji] i miss you every day." Austin started his career as a teenager with small ...

But you know, we can buy lollipops. We don’t have to deplete the supply here.” DEAR MISS MANNERS: Please, please use your influence to bring back “mother” when referencing a woman who is ...

Once you tell him how you are and ask him how he is, does he then go silent? If it really is just the one sentence and then crickets, Miss Manners will justify — and share — your mystification.

you can break into a smile. Three such performances should do it. If your colleague is nice -- even “relatively nice” -- Miss Manners predicts that you will get a return smile and fewer warnings.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of mine has been keeping in touch with me by sending text messages that contain one sentence only: “How are you, Jen?” He never shares anything about himself ...