by sumac | Jul 7, 2016 | Sports Apologies
The Big Freeze fundraiser is an annual event in Australia. Celebrities, particularly people from footy – Australian rules football – plummet down a slide into ice water. This raises money to fight motor neurone disease (MND), better known in the USA as ALS. On June...
by sumac | Jun 30, 2016 | Celebrity Apologies
Mary Pickford came down the stairs of Pickfair, the grand house she and Douglas Fairbanks had built together. Several of her guests were already at the dinner table. Pickford focused on an old friend, screenwriter Frances Marion. She ordered Marion out. “Why, Mary?...
by sumac | Jun 21, 2016 | The Mechanics of Apology
Recently SorryWatch was doing the New York Times crossword puzzle. (5/26/16.) Spotting the clue “A white one is said to symbolize ‘I’m sorry’,” we thought we had it nailed. Yellow roses mean ‘I’m sorry’! Well, no. We had to figure...
by sumac | May 23, 2016 | Political Apologies
In 1954, Ethel Payne was a reporter for The Chicago Defender, the biggest black-run newspaper in the nation. The Defender had sent her to Washington. She’d had a White House press credential for 3 months, the 3rd black reporter ever to do so, but hadn’t...
by sumac | May 17, 2016 | Personal Apologies
If you don’t say exactly what it is you’re sorry for, it can ruin an otherwise good apology. It’s evasive. The person you’re apologizing to may feel like you’re not facing up to it. It seems insincere. So when you apologize, don’t...
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