Modern Manners

Pudgy or Pregnant?

I am currently too fat for food, at least food that tastes any good. Here is why.
A couple of weeks ago, an acquaintance approached me in a local coffee shop and greeted me with, “Congratulations!” I smiled and thanked her as clearly, she was referencing my approaching wedding. “My girlfriend told me your expecting,” she [...]

New Rule!

In our friendships, women look out for each other in a way that men don’t. We’ll quickly tell a girlfriend – heck, sometimes, even a stranger – whether her outfit doesn’t match, her hair is too big, she has toilet paper stuck to her shoe., etc. We’ll tuck in another woman’s shirt tag or pull [...]

Hope for The Best

With as much complaining as I do about the South Philly ACME (11th & Reed Sts.), I thought it was only fair to share with you a very positive market story on this Modern Manners Monday. This little late also exemplifies what I love best about this neighborhood; its residents.
Today was really nothing special in [...]

Good Karma. Free Yoga

Talk about a win-win; the next two weekends will present Wake-Up Yoga (WUP) students with the opportunity to take some free yoga classes, as well as help new teachers complete their training. If you’ve you taken classes at the WUY studios, you’ll no doubt have run into a couple of Teacher Training classes and Trainees [...]

A Little Tip For You

Mix Brick Oven Pizzeria

2101 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
www.mixbrickovenpizza.com
(215) 568-3355
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This week’s Modern Manners, which goes out to the wait-staff of the world, is combined with my review of Mix.
I typically consider myself a very good tipper, like 20-25%+ when I can figure out the math, that is, which was sadly never my strong suit. But I [...]

Go Mom

For this week’s Modern Manners, I am giving a shout-out to my Mom. I am super-proud of her this week because she was able to put aside her own feelings and support me.
It’s my experience that women and their mothers have two types of relationships; either a) they’re best friends and do everything together or [...]

A Matter of Trust

I know, I know, Modern Manners is late … again. But, I have a great excuse: my sweetie unexpectedly came home from work early yesterday with a colleague so I had to spend the time I planned to use for blogging on entertaining our guest. It’s ok. It’s the right thing to do. But it [...]

Oops

I’ll admit, I goofed. I totally forgot about Modern Manners today. Call it a snow daze. It happens to all of us, so I’m not trying to sweat it too hard. Yoga teaches that nothing is good or bad, it simply is. So, there you are.
However, I don’t want to totally leave you hanging, so [...]

Bad Kitty

Sometimes I think I’m not going to have anything to focus on for Modern Manners Monday. But the “good” people of South Philly always manage to find a way to help me out.
You may have seen my tweets from Friday last week, which began, rather typically, with a comment about heading to my last yoga [...]

It Takes A Village

I haven’t talked to anyone who hasn’t been affected by the images we’ve seen coming in from Haiti after the earthquake. It seems impossible not to have a visceral compassionate response. I know I am not alone in having actually been brought to tears by the footage. We all want to do something.
This week’s Modern [...]