Year: 2010

Today we are reading about a lovely Irish girl bullied into suicide inMassachusetts.  One need only to watch the feeble responses of the school officials to see that this problem is only getting worse and that parents cannot rely on teachers and administrators to deal with this. Bullies are the Symptom, Clueless Parents and Cowardly Teachers are the Problem. (more…)

I am contemplating how believable this story will sound, but since it happened before my own eyes and with witnesses, I feel compelled to relate it, particularly to my clients in the restaurant industry. My friends and I met in the bar area of a very popular and typically wonderful restaurant (part of an Italian motif chain) in Palm Beach Gardens to catch up and have a light dinner.  As we said o...