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i have a new bag, baby!
My genius friend, the international bestselling author Susan McCarthy (I’m contractually obligated to call her that), and I are doing a new web site together: SorryWatch. We analyze apologies in the...
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I must modestly tell you that Susan and I are on fire over at SorryWatch. If you are not reading it, you should be. Recent posts of awesomeness include (she said modestly) my EXPOSE of Chris Matthews’s...
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Here is an Italian news story about SorryWatch! I shall Google Translate the key parts for you: But if the excuse “stink” or is not credible? So here is a site that goes in search of false and too...
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There is such a thing as a funny rape joke, but this thing from the Oatmeal guy is not it. Mr. Oatmeal’s apologies/apologia are even less amusant. (Look for a future SorryWatch post on the difference...
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good manners among children and Republicans
What do small children and Fox News pundits have in common? First, let us think of the children. Here is my column in Tablet magazine: The Marjorie Ingall School of Etiquette. It is a response to the...
View ArticleLance Armstrong SorryWatch
We read the transcripts so you don’t have to. And crunched the numbers and rated the apology elements. Because we SorryWatchers are mathy like that. And we join in your hope never to hear from this...
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meanwhile, in things i’m not being paid for
Please feel free to check out the finger-waggy and head-patty goings-on over at SorryWatch.
View Articlethings i have written this week
1. Barilla pasta makes babies cry. 2. Patricia Polacco is a goddess.
View ArticleSorryWatch vs. Apology Watch in Gawker
Gawker discusses the wee imbroglio in which NYT bestselling author Susan McCarthy and I (who have been doing SorryWatch since 2012) are treated super-duper-condescendingly by NYT apology parvenues....
View ArticleMore fun with the NYT’s Apology Watch crew
SorryWatch was sent an internal email — a really, really terrible apology! — from the bowels of corporate apology expert Dov Seidman’s ethical consultancy. (You may recall that we had FEELINGS about...
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I have a piece in the current (June) issue of Real Simple about apologies (thank you, SorryWatch!) — it’s not online, alas. I have a piece coming up in the July issue, too. I’ll post about that when...
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bad apologies! in real simple!
The piece I wrote for Real Simple back in June, about how NOT to apologize, is now online. Feel free to read it and to check out SorryWatch, the wee yet impassioned blog Susan McCarthy and I do...
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Quick hey. Back in May, SorryWatch (my side project with fellow writer Susan McCarthy) covered the footballer-dickweed’s lousy apology for beating his wife. We also called out the Ravens organization...
View Articlehow to apologize badly
Whoops, last week I did a Tablet piece for Yom Kippur about what I’ve learned from doing SorryWatch. I’m sorry I forgot to mention this but you should have known anyway.
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effective sex education (with bonus Mean Girls quotes)
This week’s Tablet magazine column: A look at best practices for sex education (shout-out to the awesome Population Council) and how some Jewish schools and educators are trying to incorporate them....
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snarly story roundup!
Let’s see, since we last spoke I wrote about the way Jewish summer camps’ programming for Tisha B’Av traumatized generations of tiny Hebrews (and offered suggestions of better ways to observe this sad...
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byline roundup!
I got super-excited about the return of B&H Dairy, the last kosher dairy restaurant on lower Second Avenue. (I am kinda obsessed.) I demanded that Lore Segal’s classic children’s book Tell Me A...
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byline alerts…
Getting my Jew on over at SorryWatch: A wrap-up of High Holiday apology coverage, Maimonides on apology, and forgiveness-related art. Oh look, parenting advice from Susan Sontag, via Lists of Note....
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