HOW TO BEHAVE
Living Well at Home and Abroad
Menu
Skip to content
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 Have a Tailor
How to Survive Christmas Overseas (In a Place that Doesn’t Celebrate Christmas)
Christmas Overseas – Let’s Talk About Coping
Me and my STRÅLA – The Start of Christmas Season in the Middle East
Christmas is Here (but February is coming) so Celebrate NOW
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
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 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 Read in Tune with the Season: It’s February and time for Beowulf, Bovary, the Bacchae and pathos
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)
Gifts from Etiquette Central
Etiquette Central
Etiquette Central and the Conundrums of the Universe (or: How to Acquire a Ridiculous Amount of Precious Jewels Though Etiquette Acumen)
Etiquette Central vs. the “love languages”
Behaving Well for Fun and Profit
Starting Off the New Year Right (with the blessing of Etiquette Central)
Gifts from Etiquette Central
Tag:
Gasthof
September 4, 2020
September 4, 2020
How To Behave
Travel Quotes to Make You Want to Stay Home
October 5, 2018
January 25, 2019
How To Behave
How to Deal with Zurich
August 3, 2018
February 22, 2019
How To Behave
The Unshakable Quack – How to Hotel
Modern Mrs Darcy
Living Well at Home and Abroad
The Sartorialist
Living Well at Home and Abroad