Thank you for your elegant compliment. I will let the designer know that you think her deisgn of www.newportmanners.com is elegant. As to Stuff White People Like, it is as you say, all about making fun of white people; because it is self-depricating, I find it quite amusing.

Thank you for your gracious compliment. In answer to your question, I do not identify the person who raised the question. I do not include full names, e-mail addresses, or locations when I post the Q&A to the archive. You can see that for yourself when you visit the archives. Thank you for bringing this up, I should make that clearer on the site. However, the reader does have the option of filling out a brief suvey that defines the demographics of my audience, but that information does not appear in the archives or elsewhere on the site.

Working because I have an interactive 24/7 etiquette Web site, www.NewportManners.com, that I nurture. With questions about etiquette, manners, and relationship behavior popping up on my site from all corners of the world, I am constantly answering questions. My readers won’t settle for anything other than a lightening-quick response and I try to oblige. During the holidays and wedding seasons I see the most traffic, but with the downturn in the economy I am finding that, more and more, people want to know how to do the right thing in the thriftiest way. Since we New Englanders pride ourselves in our penny-wise, penny-pinching lifestyle, I try to live up to that ideal. The Internet is my work-life. The archives on my site are the foundation of my book Newport Etiquette & Modern Manners. The questions that I answer and choose to save in my archives, tell us a lot about the concerns of people from many cultures in real time. To me the most interesting part of etiquette is its ability to change with the times. Yes, there are valid reasons for certain rules, but none are carved in stone. Watching etiquette evolve even from one year to the next is fascinating. After all, good etiquette is about flexibility and compromise, as well as compassion. For instance, a single-sex male couple moving in together and holding a housewarming party wanted to know if it would be all right to fill out a gift registry, once called a “bridal registry.” Over the years I’ve watched my readers’ interests transmogrify from being downright prissy to totally pragmatic. As you can tell by now, my whole life is the Internet. As I am constantly on-line in an attempt to keep up with our changing culture and morals, sites such as wowOwow, Stuff White People Like, StumbleUpon, the DailyBeast, the HuffingtonPost, the Spectator, and various newspaper and social networking sites, here and abroad, keep me thinking about what people really want to know about conducting oneself well.

!. Spend less money. 2. Do more for the poorest of the poor, the homeless. 3. Read more. 4. Be a better listener to my family and friends. 5. Bring my Web site, www.NewportManners.com, into 2009. 6. Exercise more. 7. Wear my old clothes. 8. Eat more locally. 9. Stop judging others. 10. Remind my family how special they are and how much I love them

Christmas because there are so many, many memories. The delight as a small child, the fun or trying to recreate that delight for one’s own children, and the feeling of togetherness and continuity. All that preparation, trying to please everyone, and the glorious satisfaction of knowing that one has made it all happen.

Caroline, go for it. You have decades ahead of you in which you can continue to lead a meaningful and productive life. You are a fabulous role model to your children, just as your parents were for you. You have so much to give in terms of your good values, skills, and huge spirit.

Those executives should walk away with nothing. How long have we been saying, “Build more efficiently, build smaller, build more economically?” For them, bigger was better because the prices would be higher and therefore the profits; they didn’t understand the times. They should have had smarter folks on board to build smaller and more efficient cars.

Who really cares?

We were going to forgo hosting our annual holiday open house, instead I included a letter to our friends and family suggesting that in lieu of bringing us a ($65.) scented candle or a ($50.) bottle of wine, would they please consider sending a contribution to Family-to-Family Project Newport, that supports the poorest of the poor. Instead of decorating with blooming amaryllis and paperwhites, mantlepiece decorations, and centerpieces, mistletoe will be hanging from every doorway. When greeting each guest, I will warn him or her with a kiss, or hug, to beware of the mistletoe.

So far the worst story that I’ve heard was from my daughter who said that her sister-in-law who was married in September just got fired and two days later her husband was fired. What a blow, what a way to start a marriage. She worked for a bridal magazine and he for a hedge fund.

In my lifetime, Jackie Kennedy, Rosalynn Carter, and Hillary Clinton, in their own ways, have been positive role models for me.

Estring is fantastic. Not only does it keep you tidy and sweet down there, it also makes me feel decades younger. Not only does it turn you on sexually, but the skin rejuvenates to a youthful girlishness. It is an amazing product. No more dryness, unpleasant scent or discharge. The labia gets younger and younger the longer you use it. I’ve turned a lot of people on to Estring, who now can’t live without it.

The right to choose here in the Democratic Catholic state of Rhode Island will be a long time coming. Even though pre-teen and teen pregnancies are on the rise, RI students do not receive sex-education instruction until eleventh grade. Although the state might have gone for Obama in the last election, the newly elected members of the school committees are as conservative as ever, if not more so.

Cutting back on the amount of water we use is hard to do. I live on an island and pay dearly for the water that comes into the house and is also used in the garden. There are two excellent reasons to cut back on the amount of water we use: the environment and cost cutting. Over the past three years I’ve replaced all light bulbs with LED light bulbs, however, just as I thought I had the electric bill under control National Grid raised the rates. Trying to keep up with inflation is a huge challenge.

Tennis.