by sumac | Jul 24, 2019 | Personal Apologies
On the morning of May 8th, Amanda Eller meditated, then decided to go for a run. It was a lovely morning, as is so often true in Maui. She drove to the Makawao Forest Reserve. Since it was just a short 3-mile run, she left her stuff in the car – phone, wallet, water...
by snarly | Jan 11, 2019 | Media Apologies, Personal Apologies
Are you bummed by the humungous number of insincere, self-serving, clueless, defensive “sorry if”s you’ve heard of late? Join us, won’t you, on a journey of thoughtful apologies! We have for your delectation a knitting magazine, a rapper, a...
by sumac | Oct 10, 2018 | Musical Apologies, Personal Apologies
As this post goes up, the Restoration team is working on Burning Man cleanup, scouring the Black Rock Desert for any traces of 2018’s event. Burners work very hard to Leave No Trace. Line sweeps, cross-raking, magnetic rakes – all come in handy. That works for...
by snarly | Sep 15, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Personal Apologies
The apology letter to Terry Crews (delightful, funny Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor) from Adam Venit (handsy, gross, disgraced movie agent who groped Crews’s genitals at a party) is really bad. Spectacularly bad. Bad enough to warrant its very own Bad Apology Bingo...
by snarly | Aug 27, 2018 | Academic apologies, Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
One half of Team SorryWatch is now off in the desert, perhaps with no pants on, perhaps not. (This was a reference to one of our most popular posts, in which Sumac reported about a camp at Burning Man that specialized in helping people apologize. It’s a great...
by sumac | May 21, 2018 | Personal Apologies
Corona Arch, near Moab, is a mile-and-a-half hike from a parking area. Pinto Arch and Bowtie Arch are along the way. Imagine a nice spring day in southern Utah and a pleasant walk through wild land, public land – your land – administered by the Bureau of Land...