Why my mother, Judi “The Manners Lady,” taught me that rules of etiquette were meant to be broken

Sometimes there are more important things than being polite.

Gracious reader,

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you had a wonderful day celebrating the mothers in your lives. My son, Percy, wished me happy Mother’s Day, and then asked, “When’s Father’s Day?”

“In about a month,” my husband answered.

“Every day is Father’s Day,” Percy quickly responded, which warmed my heart!

Fathers— and mothers! — deserve to be celebrated e…