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Etiquette Excursion with Mona Johnson
Claremont, CA– Although you spend much of your social and business life within groups, most people have no idea how to express or look after themselves within a group. Groups are the foundation of volunteering, work and school experiences and projects. Many people have no idea how groups operate or how they are to participate [...]
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Graduation Time! Upland, CA– This is graduation season. Over the next several weeks there will be many that will graduate from some level of higher education. From “pre-school” all the way to post graduate degrees including Masters and Doctorates. It’s a time to feel proud about your accomplishments, celebrate a milestone in your life and [...]
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Happy Mother’s Day Mother’s Day provokes so many emotions. According to statistics it’s the busiest day of the year for restaurants and florists. It’s the one day that most men and children feel that mothers should relax (I find this hilarious). However, there are many women that feel very lonely and alone on this day. [...]
Etiquette Excursion with Mona Johnson
Claremont, CA– Do you participate in groups? Many people fail to recognize in how many groups they participate. It may not official call its self a group but it may by all rules be a group. When many of us think of groups, we think of support groups, self-help groups or community groups. However, for [...]
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April Showers Bring May Flowers Upland, CA– Over the years we’ve all heard the saying, “April Showers Bring May Flowers.” As I’ve gotten older, I’ve seen this colloquialism come to mean more than just referencing the weather. As we close out the month of April and usher in the month of May, for many it [...]
Etiquette Excursion with Mona Johnson
Claremont, CA– It is very difficult to say when the first movie was produced or shown to the public. The reason being is that people have different ideas of what constitutes a movie. We can agree that the first movie was made in the late 1800 around 1885-1895. Movie production was the beginning of a [...]
Etiquette Excursion with Mona Johnson
Claremont, CA– How are your buffet manners this week? The most important step to successful buffet etiquette is to be neat. Being neat around food is so important and healthy. You don’t want food that has been touched or returned to the serving bowl; likewise, no one wants food you have returned to the serving [...]
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“Moving Beyond Tragedy” Upland, CA–I recently picked up a magazine and one of the headlines read, “Moving Beyond Tragedy.” This seems to be a subject on so many lips these days. The word “tragedy” is described as an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime or natural catastrophe. As [...]
Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening and Care Can Help Erase Racial Disparities
A new report shows that an aggressive, state-wide effort to provide African Americans with colorectal cancer screening and treatment eliminated long-standing disparities in survival between blacks and whites with the disease. The program may offer a model for how other states can help more African Americans access potentially life-saving cancer care. Colorectal cancer is the [...]
Etiquette Excursion with Mona Johnson
How often have you wanted to have a meal with the whole family and like so many families, everyone has an appetite for entirely different types of food. A buffet is often the answer. Just because you are going to a buffet does not mean that you toss your etiquette meal manners out of the [...]
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