PSA – May Is Melanoma Awareness Month

May 14, 2013

Etiquettehell.com LLC has, for years, been very supportive of various health awareness issues and charities.    Very often the issues we support have a personal connection to me or someone within my family or circle of friends. I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in September 2009 resulting in surgery for wide local excision of the melanoma [...]

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Passing The Funeral Buck

May 14, 2013

In 2008, my dear husband, aged 44, died on the couch at home after a prolonged illness. We lived in one state, his father and sister in another. Over the course of his two-year deterioration, they visited twice. As I had no family in town, I was blessed to have a dear friend who went [...]

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The Double Whammy of Goodness and Graciousness

May 13, 2013

I had an odd experience where I offered a gift to someone, they refused, and then offered that gift immediately to someone else. The first time I was at work, walking down the hall and I had a special treat with me, a caramel-filled chocolate bar in my bag. I spotted a work colleague from [...]

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Feel Good Friday – Mother’s Day

May 10, 2013

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Ooops…Unintentional Tastelessness

May 9, 2013

The Devon Women’s Institute (UK) ladies have a tradition of dressing up to match their guest speakers’ themes in the past. This fun tradition backfired recently when the ladies dresses as pirates thinking they were going to hear a speech on piracy. What they were unaware of was their guest speaker, Colin Darch, had been [...]

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Update to “Mad Guest And The Tea Party”

May 8, 2013

My apologies for this update being as late as it was.   (Read original post.) A day or so after the tea party, I discovered I was going to have to move! Long story short, H turned out to be a non-issue. The problem ended up being a roommate who wanted to run the show. Basically [...]

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Overcoming Wallflowerism

May 6, 2013

This issue has been plaguing me for a while, especially since I’m a naturally shy person who runs into this problem on occasion. I also recently saw it being briefly talked about on a manner segment of a national morning show. How exactly does one go about socializing at a party? Specifically, how does one [...]

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F-Bombs

May 6, 2013

Newly hired News anchor A.J. Clemente drops a few curse words, including the f-bomb, and is fired. If there really is a verbal “F-bomb” then our language has become a minefield of exploding munitions  of which we have become tone deaf.   I am beginning to no longer be surprised when even allegedly dignified people drop [...]

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