Karen Grigsby Bates

is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for NPR News and co-author, with Karen Elyse Hudson, of The New Basic Black: Home Training For Modern Times (Doubleday).

About Come Correct

Manners and mores in modern life? It's about way more than where the fork goes.

All NOVEMBER POSTS (3)

Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind

Stars--they're just like us! They're happy to be "on" most of the time, if they can have a little privacy some of the time...

No Present Like The Time

Christmas comes but once a year—but it's been coming earlier and earlier. Spending a little can squish your inner Scrooge.

My Cheap Best Friend

I love my best friend, but I can't afford to pick up her slack when we go out to eat...