Tag Archives: Manners

Feeling Old?

I don’t think I look my age. I certainly don’t act my age. Not that I know how my age is supposed to act – this is the first time I have been this old. So I was taken aback to be offered a seat on a crowded light rail train heading into downtown Ottawa. […]

Coffee or Tea?

I used to tell people that my last cup of coffee was consumed on October 16, 1981, and I didn’t finish it. I can’t say that anymore. My mother raised me to be polite, and for more than thirty years I have been politely declining all offers of coffee. “I love the aroma,” I would […]