My good and dear friend has a new web site about how to pick the right flowers for any occasion.  When I told her this story, she asked if she could publish it.  You’ll see why just below and find the link to her site and another critical link below the story.

There is hardly any worse feeling you can get in life than to have high expectations that your gift is going to be fawned over (or better yet that YOU will be for giving it) and then to be humiliated by finding out that you gave the exact wrong gift; worse yet that your gift offended a room full of people. It’s happened to me many times, but by far the most humiliating was one cold evening in a beautiful restaurant in Moscow. Continue reading →