I Did a Terrible Thing. How Can I Apologize? [nytimes.com]
As we scroll through the latest apologies in our news feeds ( I’m sorry if anyone was offended ; it was the culture back then ; I’m mostly sorry but not for THAT one ), it’s easy to see what apologies are not. But I’ve been thinking a lot about what apologies are, and why we make them. A few months ago, I flew from New York to Wisconsin to say I’m sorry to my ex-wife. We had been together for 14 years when she was told she had breast cancer in 2006. I was beside her through her surgery and...