Author Archives: By PHILIP GALANES

Social Q’s: Honoring the Neighbors’ Basset Hound — Social Q’s

What to do when your neighbors invite you to a funeral for their dog, how to remedy accidentally spamming acquaintances with LinkedIn invitations and disclosing the cost of a meal to a spouse.

Social Q’s: Social Q’s: Fifty Shades of Red

This week answers to readers’ questions about having very different literary taste from your future in-laws, and other awkward situations.

Social Q’s: Buy Concert Tickets, and Don’t Be a Material Girl – Social Q’s

How to avoid being a Material Girl and keep a friendship.

Social Q’s: Stop the Fishing for Lunch Dates – Social Q’s

The finer points of posting other people’s meals and dealing with the pronoun challenged.

Social Q’s: An Opposite View on the Neighbor’s Windows — Social Q’s

Trying to delicately solve the neighbor’s window problem, an exhaust-filled invitation, a fee for volunteering and unwanted attention to hair color.

Social Q’s: Watch the Kids, Not the Oven – Social Q’s

What can be done when the nanny mistakenly assumes she’s a cook, too?

Social Q’s: When Mom’s Weight Loss Leaves Floppy Skin

Don’t be so quick to suggest a neck lift to a successful dieter.

Social Q’s: Husband Is Generous to a Fault With Ex-Wife — Social Q’s

What to do when a husband is more than generous with child support to his ex-wife and a smoker receives more grief than support as she tries to quit.

Social Q’s: The Rules of Regifting – Social Q’s

What to do about a yoga bag developed by a friend and neighbor, politely informing friends to communicate by mail or phone instead of Facebook, and other questions of etiquette.

Social Q’s: Silence Doesn’t Solve Problem With Encroaching Passenger — Social Q’s

What to do when the person seated next to you is squeezing you out of your seat, friends who are obsessed with their children’s preschool educational options, a lost diamond ring and young love.