
Author: L M Rainer - How To Behave
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. Alexis de Tocqueville


Tales of Hideous House-Guests

How to Deal with Difficult House Guests

Organizing Guest Rooms (for when you like your Guests)

Movie Endings to Make You Smile

Creating a Social Life

Quality TV: The Proletariats’ Revenge (or Watch the Executives Suffer)

Easter Joy and Being Virtuous

Buy Pretty Things and Make Yourself Happy

Traveling Safely

Time for a Fairy Tale and a Romance

Quotes for Joy, Perseverance, Travel and General Gorgeousness

Wisdom from Truman and his incomparable Tiffany’s

It’s February – you need Persuasion

Easy Diaries/ Fill-in-Journals

February Survival Skill – Scent-scapes

Valentine’s Joy – How to Be Happy on the International Day of “Buying Yourself Nice Chocolates”

How to Receive Gifts so that People will Continue to Give you Gifts

Bad Attitude Journals (the necessary twin of Gratitude Journals)

Preparing for February (the Grim)

Grief is a Foreign Country

The Subtle Art of Sitting on Your Friend’s Sofa and Watching Them Work

“Wait and Hope” – What to Read in January

Welcoming the New Year (without resolutions!)

Christmas – Peace, Mercy, Joy (and saving the Donkey)

Christmas Movies (with a timely reminder of the joys of Sir Gawain)

Holding Onto Your Christmas Joy in the Face of Legions of Trolls

Yes, Virginia – Proper Behavior at Christmas Time

Christmas and Mercy

Crisis Averted – Peppermint Candy Canes Have Arrived
Scotland with the Wee White Dug
A Scottish travel blog showcasing the best of Scotland
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The ups and downs of the gardening world.
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