HOW TO BEHAVE

HOW TO BEHAVE

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  • How to Behave
    • How to Behave in the Most Important Place on Earth – La Vie en Cafe
    • The Meaning of the Queen of England’s Purse
    • How to Have Proper Diva Relationships
    • How to Give
    • Permission to Behave Badly
    • How to Receive Gifts (special Valentine’s Day dispatch)
    • Singing the Praises of People We Love
    • The Diva Edicts – How to Live in Harmony with Your Many Selves, Other Selves, and the Universe without being a Troll
    • More Diva Tips for Fabulous Living
    • Pro Diva Assistance
    • How to Behave if You Are a Doctor: Proper Bedside Manner Explicated
    • How to Have the Perfect Spa Experience
    • How to Have Time
  • How to Behave in Quarantine
    • Surviving Corona with a Sharp Knife, Fake Juice, Good Books and John Lennon
    • Time, Happiness, Getting Things Done & Corona; or, Why It’s Hard to Find Peace in the Midst of Difficulties (for example, hey WordPress, I HATE YOUR NEW EDITING SYSTEM)
    • How to Behave Well in a Quarantine
    • How to Quarantine in a Small Apartment
    • Surviving Quarantine – The Lessons of Negative Daydreams and Pretending Not to do Chores
    • Happy Reading for the Unhappy Time of Virus
    • Small Acts of Kindness (Especially Necessary in Hard Times)
    • How to Survive Quarantine by Thinking about Places That are Worse than Your Small Apartment; aka: Let’s Talk about Vermont
    • Reverse Psychology: Enjoy your Quarantine Because You Don’t Really Want to Travel
    • Reverse Psychology 2: Enjoy your Quarantine Because You Really Do NOT Want to Travel (to Maine and get eaten by bobcats after having cold oatmeal for breakfast)
    • Reverse Psychology 3: Loving Quarantine Because You are Safe from the Tall, Happy, Fussy People of Sweden
    • ‘A Good Year’ and other Good Movies when You are Stuck at Home
    • How to Behave when Life (hopefully, seldom) Does Not Behave as It Should
    • How To Decorate (as we are all stuck at home anyways we might as well beautify)
    • How to Accomplish Something
  • Fairy Tales
    • 1001 Reasons to Behave: The Etiquette-Fairy Tale Connection
    • Perfume, Fairy Tales and Survival: Why Smelling Good Means Behaving Well and Decimating Enemies
    • Tales from the Souq – Yusef the Thief and Mubarak the Cook
    • The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 1
    • The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 2 (The Pearl Cloth)
    • The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 3 (The Shapeshifter)
    • The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 4 (The Well)
    • The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 5 (Balquis)
  • Living Overseas
    • How to Succeed at Living in The Middle East When You Are Not Middle Eastern Proficiency Quiz (Western, Middle-Class Version)
    • How to Survive Small Towns (aka a weekend in the Big Smoke)
    • Eating Foreign at Home
    • How to Be Happy Overseas – Part 1
    • How to Be Happy Overseas – Part 2
    • How to Have Helpful Help – Part 1: You are Not in Control
    • How to Have Helpful Help – Part 2: It’s Not Your Money and it’s Not About the Money
    • How to Have Helpful Help – Part 3: Do It Yourself
    • How to Behave with Americans and English
    • Returning to Your Home Country for a Visit after Living Overseas in the Middle East Means…
    • How to Have the Flu in Two Cultures
    • This plant needs full sun, complete shade, daily watering, desert conditions, rocky soil, clay soil, well-fertilized soil and no soil at all: Buying Plants in the Middle East
    • This is an Ex-Flower: Buying Posies in the Middle East
    • How to Make a Screen Door with Oompa-Loompas, Khana, Do-hickys and Nail Polish
    • How to Hang Out in Hotel Lobbies (Not Just for Ladies of the Evening Anymore!)
    • How to Survive Christmas Overseas (In a Place that Doesn’t Celebrate Christmas)
    • How to Have a Tailor
  • Travel
    • How to Properly Pick a City to Visit
    • Carry an Artichoke, Blend In and Look Bland: Tips for Traveling Well (and a PSA for Halloween Costumes)
    • Do Not Travel to the UK – Read! – Instructions for Happiness
    • Let’s Just Forget Everything That is Currently Happening and Reminisce About Happy Times – The Seychelles
    • Yes, the World Is Still a Disaster, so Let’s Play Ostrich and Talk about the Maldives
    • How to Survive a Hotel Curse
    • How to Travel like a Diva
    • How to Go Camping
    • Aussie A-Go-Go – Unalloyed Joy in the Southern Hemisphere
    • Bali Hai might be calling you – but that doesn’t mean you need to answer
    • Raffles (in Singapore) – The Dream that Was Not to Be
    • Visiting the Island of Malta – For Those Times When A Good Italian Cafe Might Be Too Much Joy
    • India – Going Home to a Place I’d Never Been Before
    • How to Find a Tea Plantation – Happiness in Malaysia
    • “Travel Hopefully”: Thailand
    • Sweden – Fuss City
    • How to Deal with Zurich
    • The Unshakable Quack – How to Hotel
    • Vegas – Vegas – Vegas
    • Maine: How to Survive B & Bs, Bears, Bobcats and Excessive Sharing at Breakfast
    • You Never Know Who Has a Little Table; or, The Necessity of Tipping
    • How to Move to Vermont
    • How to Behave in Vermont (for the very short period you live there)
    • The Utter Tiaralessness of Waterbury, Warren, and Waitsfield
  • Home/ Style
    • How to Decorate
    • How to Have a Happier House
    • How to Behave (and Survive) in a Natural Disaster
    • How To Be Happier: Hands, Colors, No Words, No Screens
    • How to Dress (for women)
    • A Gift for You! A Secret Santa Memo to American Men on How to Dress
  • Work
    • How (not) to be a Manager
    • Managing by Machiavellian Cookies: The Secret to Corporate Success
    • How to Deal with Mansplainers
    • How to Feed People at Work or Muffins for Meetings
    • How to Cope with Engineers at the University Splendide
    • How to Properly Care for and Feed Your Secretary/ Assistant
  • How to Behave with Other People
    • The Joy of Saying No, not to Mention the Pure Bliss of Saying Hell No
    • Staying Strong in the Face of Lying, Smiling, Gout-nosed Trolls
    • Reminder – How to Get Revenge
    • People We Love
    • People We Don’t Love – Stealth Trolls
    • How to Get Revenge
    • How to Behave with a Romantic Partner
    • How to Behave with Other People’s Pregnancies
    • How to Behave with Children Who Belong to Other People
    • How to Talk to Your Significant Other about Your Relatives
    • The Importance of Everyone
  • Books/ Movies/ Art
    • Lovely review of “How to Behave”
    • Darling! Marvelous news! ‘How to Behave’ now for sale!
    • How to Be Well Read
    • How to Write
    • A Good Movie – A Good Year
    • Alma-Tadema Exhibit
    • Alma-Tadema Exhibit – The Clark Art Institute
    • Alma-Tadema Exhibit – Leighton House Museum
  • Moi
    • Grandmama’s Spare Room
    • How to Be a Bad Example Auntie
    • How to Be the One Who is not Busy, but too Busy for a Hike
    • How to Watch Snake Movies: The Life and Times of a True Pessimist
    • What to do with a Grinch
    • How to Cope with the New Year
    • What to do Instead of Writing a List of New Year’s Resolutions
    • The Fine Art of Learning the Fine Art of  Self-protection
    • Expat Acquaintances – The Wind People and the Turtle People (All Mouth, No Ears)

Author: 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
May 1, 2020July 25, 2020 How To Behave

Fairy Tales for Quarantine – The Coppersmith’s Daughter, part 1

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 How To Behave

Surviving Quarantine – The Lessons of Negative Daydreams and Pretending Not to do Chores

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 How To Behave

How to Survive Quarantine by Thinking about Places That are Worse than Your Small Apartment; aka: Let’s Talk about Vermont

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 How To Behave

How to Behave Well in a Quarantine

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 How To Behave

How to Quarantine in a Small Apartment

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 How To Behave

Happy Reading for the Unhappy Time of Virus

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 How To Behave

Behaving well in the time of the virus

March 6, 2020March 20, 2020 How To Behave

This plant needs full sun, complete shade, daily watering, desert conditions, rocky soil, clay soil, well-fertilized soil and no soil at all: Buying Plants in the Middle East

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 How To Behave

This is an Ex-Flower: Buying Posies in the Middle East

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 How To Behave

The Fine Art of Learning the Fine Art of  Self-protection

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 How To Behave

How to Receive Gifts (special Valentine’s Day dispatch)

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 How To Behave

How (not) to be a Manager

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 How To Behave

How to Give

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 How To Behave

How to Write

January 17, 2020February 28, 2020 How To Behave

Expat Acquaintances – The Wind People and the Turtle People (All Mouth, No Ears)

January 10, 2020August 7, 2020 How To Behave

How to Get Revenge

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 How To Behave

How to Cope with the New Year

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 How To Behave

What to do Instead of Writing a List of New Year’s Resolutions

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 How To Behave

What a Sensible Person Wants for Christmas

December 13, 2019December 20, 2019 How To Behave

What to do with a Grinch

December 6, 2019February 28, 2020 How To Behave

How To Rent A Car, or The Importance of Acting Classes

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 How To Behave

Sharing Good Advice

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 How To Behave

How to Go Camping

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 How To Behave

How to Deal with Mansplainers

November 8, 2019November 13, 2019 How To Behave

How to Feed People at Work or Muffins for Meetings

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 How To Behave

How to Survive Small Towns (aka a weekend in the Big Smoke)

October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 How To Behave

How to Have the Perfect Spa Experience

October 18, 2019October 25, 2019 How To Behave

Please Help Me Decide!

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 How To Behave

People We Don’t Love – Stealth Trolls

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 How To Behave

Essays from ‘How to Behave’ to be published!

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No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. (S. Johnson)

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It is because you don’t know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Top Posts & Pages

  • Yes, the World Is Still a Disaster, so Let’s Play Ostrich and Talk about the Maldives
  • The Meaning of the Queen of England’s Purse
  • Let’s Just Forget Everything That is Currently Happening and Reminisce About Happy Times - The Seychelles
  • Do Not Travel to the UK - Read! - Instructions for Happiness
  • Perfume, Fairy Tales and Survival: Why Smelling Good Means Behaving Well and Decimating Enemies
  • The Joy of Saying No, not to Mention the Pure Bliss of Saying Hell No
  • Carry an Artichoke, Blend In and Look Bland: Tips for Traveling Well (and a PSA for Halloween Costumes)
  • Surviving Corona with a Sharp Knife, Fake Juice, Good Books and John Lennon

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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand and take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth; and then some day you will be worthy of the banquets of the gods. But if you do not take these things even when they are set before you, but despise them, then you will not only share the banquet of the gods, but share also their rule. (Epictetus)

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