My spirit animal bit my patron saint

My spirit animal bit my patron saint

by | Dec 9, 2016 | Artistic apologies

A nice factlet about Julie Murphy. Around 2010, she was a librarian who did the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) thing that happens every November. The YA novel she wrote was Side Effects May Vary. Which eventually got published and became a NYT bestseller. So...
Believe it or not

Believe it or not

by | Aug 20, 2016 | Other Apologies

Maybe headline writers are starting to catch on to the difference between apologies and hand-waving about “regrets.” With Donald Trump’s help. Just starting to. Trump’s recent remarks about unspecified regrets for unspecified remarks were not headlined an...
At last

At last

by | Nov 28, 2015 | True Crime Apologies

Hugo Solano was killed by a violent teenager. Left behind were his wife Ana Solano and their two children. When the teenager, Juan Martin Garcia, was on trial Ana Solano was asked what sentence she thought he should get. She didn’t know what to say. She said she...
a sweet apology, 51 years later

a sweet apology, 51 years later

by | 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....

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