by snarly | Aug 12, 2022 | Other Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Snarly and Sumac very much enjoyed appearing on A Bintel Brief: The Jewish Advice Podcast. A Bintel Brief (Yiddish for “a bundle of letters”) began in 1906 as an advice column in The Forward, the venerable old Jewish newspaper. It answered readers’ questions about...
by snarly | May 11, 2022 | Corporate Apologies
Greetings, fellow apology fans! Let’s explore one of the worst corporate apologies in recent memory! Oh, Lufthansa, do you not remember the saga of United’s terrible apologies in 2017? Do you not recall the public outcry after United forcibly “re-accommodated” a...
by snarly | Apr 27, 2022 | Artistic apologies
Snarly and Sumac are both drawn to kintsugi, in which broken ceramics are repaired in a way that the cracks are still visible. The fixed piece feels like a new, quirky, precious thing! To us, that’s a wonderful metaphor for apology. A good apology doesn’t pretend that...
by snarly | Feb 25, 2022 | Artistic apologies
…how about some more book-related apologies? As you probably know, apology fans have been raving about Reading In A Bar guy, aka New Jersey food & culture writer Jeremy Schneider, who infuriated Twitter with 15 simple words: “Please know, if you’re someone who...
by snarly | Jan 11, 2022 | Historical Apologies
January 14 will mark the 325th anniversary of Judge Samuel Sewall’s apology for his conduct during the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1697, Sewall stood up before God and everybody in Boston’s Old South Church and bowed his head. The Rev. Samuel Willard read...
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