Editor’s Note: This essay originally ran in June 2014. We reprint it here today in recognition of Take Your Manners to Work Day. The advice is just as sound and important today as it was in 2014 because good manners never go out of style! People often make fun of me because I’m a stickler […]
If you follow me regularly or have Googled me you know I was Miss Missouri and third-runner up to Miss America. A few years after I gave up my crown, I started seriously dating a young man who couldn’t wait for me to meet his parents. His mother, Betty, was a great cook and always […]
Recently I spoke at an event with Barbara Cochran, the New York real estate mogul turned Shark Tank investor, and she said in her remarks, every time her back was up against the wall, she created a movie in her head of how see was going to succeed. She used the conversation in her mind […]