Gayden Metcalfe Biography

Gayden Metcalfe along with co-author Charlotte Hays has been dispensing official Southern etiquette and customs with a combination of charm wit and practical advice since the publication of their run-away best-seller Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral (Miramax/Hyperion). Part of the Pastel Trilogy Being Dead Is No Excuse was followed by Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Wedding (Hyperion) and the latest guide Some Day You'll Thank Me for This: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a Perfect Mother (Hyperion). An enviable cook and gifted raconteur Metcalfe along with Hays has traveled the country as a keynote speaker at women's organizations church groups literary festivals and to any group in need of knowing when to serve cheese straws the do's and don'ts of condolence letters and the proper response to anything unpleasant. Metcalfe and Hays can be booked together or separately but it's always more gracious to invite them both to speak.
Some Day You'll Thank Me for This is a loving and cheeky compendium of motherhood Southern style. As Hays and Metcalfe reveal mothers who hail from below the Mason-Dixon Line have their own unique credo to which they adhere at all costs. The way they see it their most important goals in life are to rear ladies and gentlemen drill an intimate knowledge of the family tree into their progeny's heads and make sure they pass on their silver to only the most deserving of their offspring. Their hilarious talk on the subject carefully outlines the lessons every Southern mother worth her salted pecans instills in her daughters - good manners ancestor worship family silver the ability to completely ignore anything unpleasant (whether it's watching someone eat a salad with the wrong fork or a summons to appear in court) the importance of getting into the right sorority and guilt.

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