Having Our Say

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” That’s the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. We like to reference it a lot: when we want to to wear a certain tee-shirt or fly a certain [...]

Quid Pro Quo

We make mistakes. We’re human. It’s what we do. We’re fallible and sometimes, we screw up. We do the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place. It doesn’t make us bad people. It simply makes us human. We also apologize for our mistakes, especially if those mistakes hurt or offended someone. This [...]

Apologizing for Truth

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ” – Benjamin Disraeli. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the things we apologize for. It seems to me that we (i.e., people) do a lot of apologizing for our emotions at any given moment. If we’re really happy (like [...]