Our recent trip to Florence turned me off taking pictures.
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On grossing out our fellow humans in public.
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I avoid certain topics for this blog. Here's what—and why.
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Sometimes sending a thank you note feels like the wrong thing to do.
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Sometimes, only a handwritten card will suffice. Here's when you need to write a personal, handwritten note.
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How should you be a good host?
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Having a number of houseguest experiences taught me how to be a good one.
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Why are museums places of quiet.
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Can you tell a lot about a person by her eating habits?
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In truth, people don’t pay as much attention to us as we think they do.
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Most people associate bragging with bad manners—and for some bragging, they're not wrong. Yet there are polite ways to brag.
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Few of us bother to hone the art of empathy. We should.
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People believe that if something isn't on Facebook, it isn't real.
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In the genre of ridiculous questions, I submit two: "How are you?" and "What's new with you?"
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I'm a member of a growing minority: I still have a home telephone.
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So many people expend so much valuable energy to hate and engender hate.
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Is marriage at an inflection point?
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Whatever the reason, the sheer volume of many American voices is ridiculous—and rude.
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