Tag: etiquette

Conversation Skills Etiquette There is an art to elegantly starting, sustaining and ending a dialogue with strangers or friends. Experts call it conversational intelligence. Others call it the gift of gab. Hard as it may be for chatty people to believe, not everyone is born...

My best friend’s mother died recently, and our mutual friends have been asking me what things they should and shouldn’t do to help her and her family through this difficult time. When someone outside of our own family dies, we all want to do...

As I write this post, I am in Toronto, Canada with my family of four staying in my Parents-in-Law’s two bedroom condo for a week. While it’s wonderful to spend time with them, we are already tripping over each other in the kitchen, my...

Wedding Etiquette From the moment a couple is engaged, there is so much planning to do that sometimes it can seem daunting about what you are “supposed” to do and what crosses the line to “tacky” or “impolite”. Below are some wedding etiquette tips for the...

Graduation Etiquette If you have a high school or college graduate, or if you've been invited to a graduation ceremony or party, you may have some questions about the etiquette of graduations. Below are some common questions, and my (hopefully) straight forward answers on graduation...

New Baby Etiquette Tips I was in labor for 25 hours. Most of our friends figured when I went into the hospital at 7:00 AM on Thursday morning, that I would have the baby sometime that day. It was a good assumption, but they were...

You're at a lovely cocktail party, but instead of enjoying the food and company, you're stressed out because you think you should have brought a hostess gift, you're starving but you can't juggle the plate while still holding your glass of wine, and you can't get away...