At the same time, a little conversation grease goes a long way to help dinner parties and other social ... they should say or floundering for a topic to bring up, you’re in luck.

Below, see a lengthy list of conversation starters, topics, and questions to help spark interesting discussion during dinner parties and social situations where you very much do not want to be ...

But planning what you'll eat for dinner is the easy part. Coming up with family conversation starters that aren't "how was your day?" and "can you pass the salt?" is the hard part. Of course ...

and Will Leightner at Penn State Altoona’s community dinner. Photo for the Mirror by Matthew Callan Simple things like soup and bread combined with the more complex — conversation with topics ...

They started reminding me that it was time for "kind, brave, fail" — the shorthand way we began to refer to our dinner conversation starter. Months after that, the questions started to evolve.