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Mobile text messages are intended as brief chats. People don’t keep them and they are difficult to download anyway. Texting…
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This is an upsetting subject for many people. If you’re a parent, you hate nagging your child to write a…
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Not to get too deep, yet bluntly put…why do we humans spend so much energy being mean and hurtful to…
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As restaurants open and reopen worldwide, safe restaurant dining etiquette has shifted to a focus to make sure we all…
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Have you been interrupted or called an interrupter? The first one is common, unfortunately. I admit to the latter, which…
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Last month, a long-time subscriber asked me how to resolve a situation at her office. A couple of staff members,…
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To follow last month’s tip on Mother’s Day (Also at https://www.advancedetiquette.com/2018/05/honoring-moms-worldwide/), it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t also discuss…
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In all the years of writing “Etiquette Tip of the Month” articles, I’ve never written about Mother’s Day. This is…
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We all know we will not live forever (at least not as of 2018). Nevertheless, many people have a difficult…
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This past month, a loyal subscriber emailed me to ask if I would address the topic of in-law etiquette. Admittedly,…
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I share the following poem I read in a doctor’s office, while waiting for my appointment. I read it several…
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As the biggest holiday season of the year approaches, more people have asked me whether giving gift cards is good…
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As you may know, I live in Marin County, where the devastating Northern California wildfires raged in October. The terrible…
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Despite the notion that some of these phrases might sound old-fashioned, it’s still important to say “please” and “thank you.”…
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Maybe it’s just me, but in the last two months it appears people are becoming sloppier and messier with how…