by sumac | Apr 11, 2018 | Personal Apologies
People often have places to go, and important things to do there. Often they drive to those places. Animals often have places to go, and important things to do. While some animals find a nice place and stay there, other animals need to travel for business. They might...
by sumac | Nov 22, 2017 | Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
In one of those “One Hundred Years Ago” columns newspapers sometimes run, SorryWatch came across an interesting 1917 account of a soldier, Thomas J. Ryan, whose mother was having a hard time letting go. Ryan was stationed at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco....
by snarly | Sep 13, 2017 | Artistic apologies, Personal Apologies, Youth apologizes
It’s very sweet. Snarly saw it on Pinterest. We can’t read the signature and Googling did not turn up the maker. ...
by sumac | Aug 3, 2017 | Personal Apologies
It’s almost time. That time when a strangely-assorted group of people travel in their thousands to a flat dry dustpan to camp, build artworks, ignite spectacular flames, dance, give things to each other, and burn artworks down. And things too fierce to mention....
by sumac | Jul 27, 2017 | Personal Apologies
Sometimes an apology fails rational criteria and yet manages to do the job. SorryWatch was reading Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s excellent autobiography, and came across such a case. As described in the book, Springsteen’s father was a hard man to grow...
by sumac | Jun 6, 2017 | Personal Apologies
Cousins of Sorrywatch were new to rural Montana. Their neighbors had chickens, including a rackety rooster. One day the chicken owners came by and told my cousins that their dog – call her Nickel – had come over and killed 11 of their chickens. Horrified, my cousins...