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Summer break & reboot
Enjoy the rest of summer, friends. I'm hiatus-ing the blog until after Labor Day, when it will reboot with a new focus. I'm hoping you can help me come up with a catchy tagline, in fact, for the intersection of social behavior and the performing arts. (I'm thinking something like "All the World's a Stage" but less cliched, or "Due Respect to Irving Berlin, All Business Is in Fact 'Show Business'" but less clunky.)
Even the mousiest of mouseburgers plays many roles in the course of a day -- worker, parent, neighbor, friend, spouse. What insights from theater training can help us play the roles of everyday life more effectively -- and be a better "scene partner" to the wonderful or difficult folks we encounter? How are new social technologies and ideas -- from cell phones to same-sex weddings -- portrayed in television, plays, and movies?
You get the idea. It's going to be fairly excellent, I think.
Enjoy the dog days.
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About Miss Conduct
Welcome to Miss Conduct’s blog, a place where the popular Boston Globe Magazine columnist Robin Abrahams and her readers share etiquette tips, unravel social conundrums, and gossip about social behavior in pop culture and the news. Have a question of your own? Ask Robin using this form or by emailing her at missconduct@globe.com.
Welcome to Miss Conduct’s blog, a place where the popular Boston Globe Magazine columnist Robin Abrahams and her readers share etiquette tips, unravel social conundrums, and gossip about social behavior in pop culture and the news. Have a question of your own? Ask Robin using this form or by emailing her at missconduct@globe.com.
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Robin Abrahamswrites the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine and is the author of Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners. Robin has a PhD in psychology from Boston University and also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School. Her column is informed by her experience as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, and their socially challenged but charismatic dog, Milo.
Who is Miss Conduct?
Robin Abrahamswrites the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine and is the author of Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners. Robin has a PhD in psychology from Boston University and also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School. Her column is informed by her experience as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, and their socially challenged but charismatic dog, Milo.
