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...
by sumac | May 7, 2016 | Personal Apologies
Mark Woodward, a guy apparently unclued about social media and civic decency, posted some nasty stuff on Facebook for no real reason. Surprising he’s so differently-clued about social media, since he’s CEO of a software company, but maybe it’s about...
by sumac | Mar 11, 2016 | Personal Apologies
Suddenly a strobe destroys the darkness. Frantic loud notes! Flashing! Buzzing! “Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Stop! God DAMN it!” “For God’s sake!” … “I’m sorry my phone woke you up last night.” “What was that?” “That was my alarm. I left it in the...
by sumac | Feb 23, 2016 | Personal Apologies
We are entering a golden age of the police report, possibly led by the Arcata Eye’s justly famous example. Skimming a Lebanon, Oregon public record summary in search of apology, I got distracted by the pirate festival. Lebanon’s a small town on the South...
by sumac | Dec 11, 2015 | Personal Apologies
Sumac’s still in Antarctica, where people are awfully damned nice. They say sorry a lot, but not because they’ve done anything worth mentioning. Then when they secretly zip-tie a person’s leg to a chair leg, they just laugh. Sumac used the satellite...
by snarly | Nov 1, 2015 | Personal Apologies
The New York Times’s John Leland has a neat little story in today’s paper about a prosecutor apologizing to a defendant…a half-century after the prosecutor won his case. Back then, Gerald Harris was an assistant district attorney in New York City....