Blog Posts by "Mary Jessica Hammes"
Happy Valentine's!
Posted on Feb 14, 2012 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Happy Valentine’s Day! Time for a Quick Top 5: Valentine’s Date Night Edition. 1. Be on time! Don’t keep your date waiting! 2. Be clean! Go easy on fragrance, too. What you love might make your date sneeze. 3. Be prepared! If you failed to get reservations at your favorite res...
Tagged: valentines day
News Flash: Cupid Prescribes!
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Etiquette changes with the times. Nowhere is this more evident than in archival material. Valentine’s Day on the brain? For some charming, if slightly outdated, advice, why not take a quick travel in time…to 1959? Feb. 8, 1959, to be precise— as captured in an article published that day in The L...
Tagged: valentines day, etiquette, manners, dating, chocolate, flowers
Here's a good New Year's resolution: Civility!
Posted on Dec 31, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Quick! Make a New Year’s resolution! Happy New Year! While you’re assessing how 2011 went and considering goals for 2012, why not think of civility? We found an excellent article, published in Salida, Colorado’s Mountain Mail, on this very subject. “…Maybe, as we j...
Tagged: center on congress, civility, george washingtons rules of civility, lee h hamilton, new year, resolutions
Happy Holidays!
Posted on Dec 21, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Pasar buenas vacaciones Trevlig helg Bonnes vacances 즐거운 휴일 보내세요 Buone vacanze Any way you say it, we wish it so for you and yours! Happy Holidays!!!!!! Debra Lassiter, April McLean & Cindy Haygood The Etiquette & Leadership Institute December 2011
Tagged: christmas, happy holidays, childrens etiquette, perfectly polished, manners, eli
Xtreme Makeover with the Ron Clark Academy!
Posted on Dec 14, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
During the season of giving, we were privileged to be a part of something truly special: making over a bedroom. It might sound small, but it’s a life-changing event for a child. In this case, two children. Every year, the Ron Clark Academy transforms a deserving child’s life with the...
Tagged: extreme bedroom makeover, ron clark academy
Guess who's taking naps on the porch
Posted on Dec 2, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
We were absolutely delighted to be interviewed by Susan of the fantastic blog, Between Naps on the Porch. We chatted about etiquette and hosting (or attending) dinner parties and holiday events. You can read it right here!
Tagged: between naps on the porch, dinner parties, holidays, hosting
Tips for the imperfect (or normal) Thanksgiving gathering
Posted on Nov 22, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
If you have never looked this happy at the dinner table, don’t worry. You are not alone. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to gather cherished friends and family, eat delicious food, and bask in collective gratitude for all the precious things in our lives. Of course, no one is perfect. Som...
Tagged: thanksgiving, dinner, manners, childrens etiquette, politics, religion, money
Show manners for the club/bar scene
Posted on Nov 17, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Look what we found. This is just one panel – see the whole comic strip here! Athens artist Missy Kulik recently made this comic strip that made us realize something important. When we talk about etiquette at shows, we so often mean sit-down, quiet affairs – like a play or ballet, the...
Tagged: rock, indie, club, show, concert, etiquette, manners, athens, missy kulik, of montreal
Training next week!
Posted on Nov 4, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Debra, April and Cindy are excited! Our next round of etiquette training certification starts next week , and we can’t wait! This time, we have future etiquette consultants traveling to our training from Virginia, Illinois, Georgia, Texas and Canada. Like our last training week in June &...
Tagged: training week, childrens etiquette, childrens etiquette certification, perfectly polished, ron clark academy, etiquette and leadership insititute, eli
Manners or grades?
Posted on Oct 25, 2011 by Mary Jessica Hammes |
Did you catch Matt Lauer on Today talking about what parents want more from their children – good manners or good grades? On a recent segment, Lauer announced that NBCU surveyed (an unspecified amount of) women, asking parents whether they’d prefer for their children to have good manners ...
Tagged: donny deutsch, grades, manners, matt lauer, nancy snyderman, star jones, today
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