DEAR MISS MANNERS: In the era of selfies, I’m as guilty as anyone of holding my phone out and snapping a photo of my spouse and me in front of some interesting feature.

Those photos stay on my phone, or maybe on a social media account, but no further.

Conversely, both sets of my grandparents, of blessed memory, who never even heard the word “selfie,” had 8×10 studio photographs of themselves framed and hanging on the walls in their respective living rooms. I also inherited large-format portrait photos of two pairs of great-grandparents, both of which are in fairly elaborate frames. They now hang in my living room.

Though it was obviously once common, I don’t know anyone who has framed portraits of themselves in their homes now.

An oil portrait of my spouse and me isn’t in our budget, b

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