Minx’s Charm School Polite Party Pointer - Every had the dilemma of uncorking a bottle of wine, only for the cork to break ? No one likes cork fragments in their wine. Reminiscent of college parties, taking a swig from the wrong beer, that someone put their cigarette stub in……. NO LIKEY. Minx turned resourceful, ala MacGyver came up with a solution. COFFEE FILTERS ! yep, just put the coffee filter over the glass and...  Read More »

TODAYS TOPIC – Public Perspiration ! Case and point – I was just at my swanky gym, Sports Club Beverly Hills. A gentleman, and I’ll use that term loosely, looked like a bucket of water had been dumped over his head. By passing towels and papers, in favor of leaving his sweat DNA every where he went.   Then as he did sit ups, it was raining sweat, all over the stretch area.  I was about to adorn myself with a shower...  Read More »

CHARM SCHOOL HELPFUL HINT FROM THE DESK OF MINXY POPPINS, CHARM SCHOOL FOUNDER AND HEADMISTRESS Here is a British tradition instilled in me since I was a Lil Minx. When you are finished eating, you place your knife and fork together, with the knife blade facing the fork. This is a non verbal signal that you are done, and the plate can be cleared. I hope to start a craze to sweep the Country,  have wait staff thanking me with free drinks...  Read More »

CHARM SCHOOL BULLETIN FROM THE DESK OF MINXY POPPINS MINX’S CHARM SCHOOL HEADMISTRESS AND FOUNDER. The humiliation of men continues…. I spotted men being dragged shopping, then made to carry purses ! Please don’t make your male companion carry any kind of purse or handbag, even if it is designer. It makes them look like a wee wee pad ( code term for walked all over ) Leave the men at home, and carry your own purse....  Read More »

CHARM SCHOOL REMINDER FROM THE DESK OF MINXY POPPINS. Try to be respectful of peoples boundaries, and signals. If you have to email, text and any other morse code like communication, please refrain for sending more than one, if there is no reply, anymore than 2 contact attempts tells you the recipient is “no interessante”, and its bordering on stalker/pest. Take the hint, and don’t make yourself look 51/50 (psych terms...  Read More »

I love the quote from Dr. Seuss “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” With a Minxy twist, Mixed with a Minxism = Today, just be You in all your glory, and either people will dig you, and get you, or they won’t.   Just focus on the ones that do. I sure do……….  Read More →