On a recent Wednesday evening after work, I nervously got ready for my first-ever blind dinner date—not with a potential partner, but with five other potential friends. All I knew I knew in advance ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My brother and I celebrated the birthday of a close friend with several others. The dinner was at a local restaurant, beginning at 5 p.m. (stated time). We had difficulty finding ...

Dear Annie: I recently hosted a small dinner party at my home for a few close friends -- just six of us, gathered around the table for what I hoped would be a relaxing evening of good food and ...

For the chef and cookbook author, seeing friends doesn’t have to be complicated. It just has to happen. These recipes can help. “We’ll often say — only half-joking — that Monday dinner is our religion ...

My husband is immunocompromised, and so we are careful of germ exposure. We don’t want to touch this friend’s phone.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken to everything in the universe.” – John Muir I bought a new flashlight for ...

At the dinner table, the pretty standard off-limit conversations are religion and politics.With my friends and me, once ...

The hustle and bustle of city life leaves little room for socializing with strict routines to survive the day-to-day. As we approach the new year, many are looking to shake things up, meet new people, ...

A simple attempt to take a picture of her meal led to one woman leaving the dinner table and her friends behind Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for PEOPLE since ...