I remember the first time I stepped foot into a gym. It was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be; bright lights, big pieces of equipment, and lots of sweaty gym goers avoiding eye contact ...

The thought of all the guys at a dinner table scrambling to stand just because I'm getting up to go to the ladies' room strikes me as … funny. But at one point in recent history, it would have been a ...

Picture this: you walk into a restaurant and notice someone scrolling through Instagram while their food gets cold. Their ...

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Diane Gottsman, etiquette expert and owner of the Protocol School of Texas, in San Antonio. Catherine Newman, etiquette columnist for Real Simple. Anna Post, a coauthor of “Emily Post’s Etiquette, ...

Holiday tipping is a popular custom, but it may need to change with the times. Here’s how to fit holiday tipping into your ...

Even though email and other computer-based communications have taken precedence in business, telephone communications continue to be a primary means. Many customers, contractors and institutions ...

In today's business environment, email is ubiquitous. Questions, discussions, reports, emergencies, briefings and more happen in the blink of an eye via email. And while email entrenched itself firmly ...

Money gets a bad rap for being complicated. Credit reports can read like they're in another language. Balancing a checkbook can feel like calculus. And these days in particular, investing leaves many ...

American society has been littered with foul language, rude antics and overall disrespectful behavior. In the olden days this would not be tolerated, but now Americans seem to have grown accustomed to ...