How To Behave – Etiquette Central

How To Behave – Etiquette Central

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  • Etiquette Central
    • How Etiquette Central Can Illuminate Your Life
    • Etiquette Central and the Conundrums of the Universe (How to Acquire a Ridiculous Amount of Precious Jewels Though Etiquette Acumen)
    • Know Yourself
    • Pay Yourself First – part 1
    • Pay Yourself First – part 2
    • Etiquette Central vs. the “love languages”
    • The Need to Accept Kindness
    • Behaving Well for Fun and Profit
    • The Meaning of the Queen of England’s Purse
    • Advice on How to Behave from the Etiquette Central All-Stars #1- Alexis de Tocqueville
    • The Golden Rule and the Chi of Etiquette (or Why Etiquette Central Does Not Accept Questions)
    • More Diva Tips for Fabulous Living
      • Being Charming: How to be charming and Why to be charming
      • Pro Diva Assistance
      • How to Have the Perfect Spa Experience
      • How to Have Time
      • How to Behave if You Are a Doctor: Proper Bedside Manner Explicated
      • How to Accomplish Something
  • How To Behave
    • The Importance of Doing Things Badly
    • A 2020s Woman Living Like a 1920s Man – Tailors, Gardeners, Beauticians, Cleaners and Getting Things Done
    • The Diva Edicts – How to Live in Harmony with Your Many Selves, Other Selves, and the Universe without being a Troll
    • The Lassitudes of March (and which candles to buy to help you with those lassitudes) 
    • What to Do with Good News: Stop or Go
    • Permission to Behave Badly
    • Trust Legos (or: How To Get Through Awful Events)
    • How to Behave in the Most Important Place on Earth – La Vie en Cafe
    • How to Have Proper Diva Relationships
    • How to Give
    • How to Behave with Other People
      • Coping with House Guests who are Oddly Unlike You
      • How to Ask for Help from Strangers
      • Singing the Praises of People We Love
      • The Joy of Saying No, and 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 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
      • How to Get Revenge
  • Living Expat in the Middle East
    • Expat Advice: How (and why) to duck “Where are you from?”
    • Villain Origin Stories or The Making of a Karen, part 1
    • Villain Origin Stories or The Making of a Karen, part 2
    • Creating a Happy Life Overseas: Beauty Routines and Losing Friends
    • Creating a Happy Life Overseas: No Impartial Bananas and Cordiality Abounding
    • Living Overseas and Surviving Confusion
    • Living Overseas and Meeting Fairy Tale People
    • April – one of the old guard gone
    • Old guards and newbies overseas
    • Tactical Affability: How to Accomplish Tasks in the Middle East (part 1)
    • Getting Stuff Done in the Middle East – part 2
    • How to Adjust to Foreign Cultures
    • Minor Moral Dilemmas in the Middle East
    • Getting Food in the Middle East
    • How to Succeed at Living in The Middle East: The Quiz (Western, Middle-Class Version)
    • How to Be Happy Overseas – Part 1
    • How to Be Happy Overseas – Part 2
    • Being a Full-Metal Karen, or Taking Control of a Flower Arrangement
    • 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
    • Visiting Your Home Country after Living Overseas in the Middle East Means…
    • Finding Joy in Multi-cultural Settings
      • 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
      • How to Have the Flu in Two Cultures
      • How to Make a Screen Door with Oompa-Loompas, Khana, Do-hickys and Nail Polish
      • How to Survive Small Towns (aka a weekend in the Big Smoke)
      • How to Have a Tailor
      • Eating Foreign at Home
      • How to Behave if You Are a Doctor: Proper Bedside Manner Explicated
  • How to Travel Well
    • The Purpose of Vacations
    • How to Properly Pick a City to Visit
    • How to Pack for a Trip
    • How to Travel: Cafe Hunting
    • How to Travel like a Diva
    • How to Go Camping
    • You Never Know Who Has a Little Table; or, The Necessity of Tipping
    • Surviving a visit to a UK, American, Arabian or Australian home
    • Carry an Artichoke, Blend In and Look Bland: Tips for Traveling Well (and a PSA for Halloween Costumes)
    • Hotels
      • The Unshakable Quack – How to Hotel
      • How to Survive a Hotel Curse
      • Full-metal Karen in the Hotel
      • How to Hang Out in Hotel Lobbies (Not Just for Ladies of the Evening Anymore!)
  • Travel Essays
    • Best Travel Quotes – The Dangers of Traveling
    • Best Travel Quotes – Why You Should Travel
    • Middle East, Africa and Aisa
      • Egypt – the enchantment of souqs
      • The Seychelles – let’s forget everything that is currently happening and reminisce about happy times
      • The Maldives – yes, the world Is still a disaster, so let’s play ostrich and talk about somewhere nice
      • 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
      • India – going home to a place I’d never been before
      • Thailand – the land of “travel hopefully”
      • Malaysia – how to find a tea plantation
      • Jordan – a travel memory
    • UK/ EU
      • Do Not Travel to the UK – Read! – Instructions for Happiness
      • Travel Memory – Europe
      • Visiting the Island of Malta – For Those Times When A Good Italian Cafe Might Be Too Much Joy
      • Sweden – Fuss City
      • How to Deal with Zurich
    • USA
      • Vegas – Vegas – Vegas
      • Maine: How to Survive B & Bs, Bears, Bobcats and Excessive Sharing at Breakfast
      • 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
  • Work
    • Watercoloring and the Proper Management of Employees
    • Work advice for future CEOs
    • How and Why to Mentor People at Work: The Lessons of Lasso and Henry Higgins
    • Louise Penny and The Mysteries of Middle Eastern Management
    • 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 Properly Care for and Feed Your Secretary/ Assistant
    • Surviving education
      • Blossoming in Grad School – The Theory
      • Blossoming in Grad School – The Practicalities
      • Congratulations (and advice) on your college/ university acceptance! (graduate school edition)
      • Congratulations (and advice) on your college/ university acceptance! (undergraduate edition)
      • How to Cope with Engineers at the University Splendide
  • Home/ Style/ Food
    • Surviving food cravings
    • TheraBox, Allure, subscription boxes and the Knights who Say Ni
    • 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
    • Surviving Northern European Cafes, or What to Have For Breakfast
    • How to Choose the Right Dessert
    • What You Need to Eat Right Now: A Mendiant (or a Florentine)
    • Darling, You Need A Smoothie, a Mummy (or Monster Hunter) Movie and a Heavy-Duty Euphoria Scent
  • Books/ Art
    • Lovely review of “How to Behave”
    • “How to Behave” (the book) is now for sale!
    • Reading to Subvert Dominant Power Structures: How Children’s Books Save Your Life
    • Reading in Autumn: Classic Travel Books
    • Reading in Autumn: Amusing Travel Adventures
    • Reading in Autumn: Fearless Adventuresses
    • How to Be Well Read
    • How to Write
    • How to Read in Tune with the Season: February is for Beowulf, Bovary, the Bacchae and pathos
    • Fairy Tales
      • Lessons from Fairy Tales or Why the Prince is Not a Prince
      • The Joy of Fairy Tales (or what to read/ watch with your pumpkin spice latte, Manhattan, hard cider or double vodka)
      • What Fairy Tales Teach You
      • 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
      • What Fairy Tales Teach You
    • The Joy of Alma-Tadema
      • Alma-Tadema Exhibit
      • Alma-Tadema Exhibit – The Clark Art Institute
      • Alma-Tadema Exhibit – Leighton House Museum
  • Moi
    • True That – Mottos to Live By
    • How to help Afghani refugees
    • Winning Gold in Non-Olympic Sports: Seagulls and Shopping
    • Why Procreation is Roulette: Loving Your Family Does not Require Understanding (or Emulating) Them
    • Traveling Home or Who Are These Familiar/ Unfamiliar People
    • 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
    • The Fine Art of Learning the Fine Art of  Self-protection
    • Expat Acquaintances – The Wind People and the Turtle People (All Mouth, No Ears)
  • Movies
    • Watching Movies, Surviving Childhood and Becoming an Assassin
    • Watching Foreign Films on Planes
    • How to Adjust to Foreign Cultures by Watching Silly Movies
    • A Good Movie – A Good Year
    • Food Movies – Why Delicious is not delicious
    • Creating Characters – House of Gucci vs. Dune
    • A Broken Bond – Good Riddance to the Daniel Craig version of Our Favorite James
    • Raise the Red Lantern: or What to Do When Women Fight at Work
    • Stillwater, or What Really Happens if You are “Lost in Translation”
    • Celebrating Christmas with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Holidays
    • For Valentine’s Day, the answer to the eternal question: What is Love?
    • How to Receive Gifts (special Valentine’s Day dispatch)
    • Starting Off the New Year Right (with the blessing of Etiquette Central)
    • Instead of Writing a New Year’s Resolution List You Should…
    • Surviving Holiday Video-calls
    • ‘Tis the Season to Be Merry (and merrily avoid Grinches)
    • Me and my STRÅLA – The Start of Christmas Season in the Middle East
    • Gifts from Etiquette Central
    • What a Sensible Person Wants for Christmas.
    • The Season of Giving (& Tipping, Avoiding Giving Tips & Trying not to Feel Guilty about not Tipping)
    • Celebrating Christmas with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    • Christmas when you live where Christmas is not celebrated
      • Christmas Overseas – Let’s Talk About Coping
      • Christmas is Here (but February is coming) so Celebrate NOW
      • What to do with a Grinch
      • Starting Off the New Year Right (with the blessing of Etiquette Central)
      • How to Cope with the New Year
      • What to do Instead of Writing a List of New Year’s Resolutions
      • Christmas is Here – But February is Coming (so buy candles)
      • How to Survive Christmas Overseas (In a Place that Doesn’t Celebrate Christmas)
  • Guest Author
    • Guest author: A Modest Proposal or Being an Expat Professor in the Middle East
    • Guest Author 2: Book Publishers Behaving Badly
  • Corona
    • What Covid Changed
    • Scent-scapes and surviving the 154th lockdown/ curfew
    • Surviving Corona with a Sharp Knife, Fake Juice, Good Books and John Lennon
    • Time, Happiness, Getting Things Done & Corona
    • 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)

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Welcoming the New Year (without resolutions!)

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

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

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

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Yes, Virginia – Proper Behavior at Christmas Time

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Christmas and Mercy

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Crisis Averted – Peppermint Candy Canes Have Arrived

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Christmas in the Middle East – STRÅLA and Sardine-flavored Candy Canes

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Holiday Gift Guide for Darling People

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Starting Off the New Year Right (with the blessing of Etiquette Central)

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Instead of Writing a New Year’s Resolution List You Should…

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Surviving Holiday Video-calls

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‘Tis the Season to Be Merry (and merrily avoid Grinches)

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Christmas is Here – But February is Coming (so buy candles)

December 14, 2021February 4, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

Christmas Overseas – Let’s Talk About Coping

December 3, 2021December 3, 2021 L M Rainer - How To Behave

The Season of Giving (& Tipping, Avoiding Giving Tips & Trying not to Feel Guilty about not Tipping)

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Starting Off the New Year Right (with the blessing of Etiquette Central)

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Gifts from Etiquette Central

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Christmas is Here (but February is coming) so Celebrate NOW

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What a Sensible Person Wants for Christmas.

November 27, 2020January 28, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

‘Tis the Season to be Merry (and Careful – Avoid Feeding the Grinches!)

January 3, 2020January 28, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

How to Cope with the New Year

December 27, 2019January 28, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

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

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What a Sensible Person Wants for Christmas

December 13, 2019January 28, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

What to do with a Grinch

December 21, 2018January 28, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

A Gift for You! A Secret Santa Memo to American Men on How to Dress

December 14, 2018January 28, 2022 L M Rainer - How To Behave

How to Survive Christmas Overseas (In a Place that Doesn’t Celebrate Christmas)

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

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

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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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