This one should go without saying and yet, it still needs to be said. Pick up after your dog!!! As you may remember, I love dogs and I spend a lot of time walking them. In the many miles that I cover each week, I sadly come across piles left by dog owners who haven’t…
One of the many jobs of a parent is to teach our children good manners. Manners in general seem to be in decline but elevator manners in particular don’t seem to be commonly taught anymore. Or maybe I’m just jaded because most of my elevator use comes in hotels with vacationing families and children running…
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Return to Civility post. This one seems particularly appropriate to the season… We’ve all seen it… the rude customer giving the clerk a hard time or being impatient when something goes wrong at the register or just plain ignoring the clerk, too busy talking on their cell…
I have been feeling very down lately, very hopeless at the general state of affairs in our world. This is not my natural tendency, to feel sad and hopeless, and I needed to do something about it. It’s time to pick myself up and focus on myself, on my own small piece of the world…
A refrain heard often in schools every day. No cuts in the line! No frontsies, no backsies, and no saving places. All school children are well aware of the rules but it sometimes seems as though grown-ups have forgotten. Whether it is intentional bad behavior or just because we are becoming so self-absorbed that we…
I haven’t done one of these quick Return to Civility tips in awhile. Today’s tip to make the world a better place – Take a walk! I’d like to expand that to include interacting with people you meet along the way. On one of my recent dog walks around the neighborhood we waved at the cyclist…
There are many things about the world today that, in my opinion, are not great. Big problems and smaller problems. Some things will take a lot of people working for a long time to see change. What am I doing in the meantime? What small, daily actions can I take to work towards a more…