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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, July 2007

Family First

Sal mops the floors where I work.
He vacuums the carpets and wipes the baseboards down. He empties the trash.
He cleaned up all the blood next door, in the hallway of the apartment building my boss owns. No one knows how it got there one night, three months ago, although this neighborhood becomes pretty [...]

Noted with interest

Some advice a lot of us would do well to remember.
Peter Post, great-grandson of Emily and author of several etiquette books, argued that laptops should be banned from the main meal, but are fine during coffee hour, when guests linger at the table conversing. “If you’re using the laptop to look something up in the [...]