But you’re my mother

But you’re my mother

by | Apr 26, 2017 | Personal Apologies

In Nadja Spiegelman’s memoir, I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This, she recounts a curious episode from her youth. (SorryWatch is focusing on apology here and will leave aside our admiration for the work of the writer’s parents, Françoise Mouly...
Not your average bonsai

Not your average bonsai

by | Apr 6, 2017 | Personal Apologies

The botanical gardens at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus cover ten acres – that’s a lot of plants, so they probably can’t keep track of them all and wouldn’t miss one puny shrub that would look fantabulous on the grounds of...
Don’t we need a nice apology story right now?

Don’t we need a nice apology story right now?

by | Mar 24, 2017 | Personal Apologies

I  think we do. Thanks to SorryWatch’s Senior Starbucks Correspondent Ernie for sharing this one, via ABC News. (Warning: Video autoplay at the link.) Mise-en-scène: Andrew Richardson, 20, is staffing the Starbucks drive-through window in Bishop, CA. A lady buys...
I saw what you did, lady

I saw what you did, lady

by | Nov 11, 2016 | Personal Apologies

Hot summer afternoon in North Carolina. Rebecca Landis Hayes went to the grocery store. She spotted a parking space reserved for veterans, and pulled into it. She was just going to run in quickly, and it was hot. So she did. When she came out, there was a note on her...

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