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Amy Alkon

Is Everybody Rude? Modern Manners Unplugged

Debra Ollivier | Posted 02.29.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Protocol, Etiquette, Manners, Cell Phone Etiquette, Henry Alford, Office Etiquette, Proper Etiquette, Modern Manners, Good Behavior, Amy Alkon, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

Rudeness and bad manners - and books about them - are on the rise. Technology clearly has much to do with this. Even "smart" technology has made many of us seem "less smart." (That's a polite way of putting it.) It's certainly made people more distracted and self-centered, both of which breed bad manners.

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Articles About Womanhood, Motherhood, and Beauty: Time to Say Something New

Kate Fridkis | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Amy Alkon, Pyschology Today, The Wall Street Journal, Breastfeeding, The New York Times Magazine, Motherhood, Beauty, Evangelicalism, Womanhood, Marriage, Women, Parenting, Feminism, Healthy Living News
Kate Fridkis

No matter what I do, it's going to be a political statement, and women will be writing articles and preaching to paying audiences about all the people in the group I accidentally affiliated with.

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What I Learned From Sandy Banks, Amy Alkon and Antwone Fisher: 'Do The Right Thing'

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Los Angeles Times, Antwone Fisher, The Good Men Project, Manhood, Amy Alkon, Los Angeles Book Festival, Book Publishing, Book Festival, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

But I had made a commitment to speak at Los Angeles Book Festival many months before and couldn't very well back out after the panel -- featuring Antwone Fisher, Amy Alkon and me.

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