Is it just me or are there more people asking to be forgiven and offering up apologies more than ever before? We are seeing it in the news, from the politicians, to athletes and we see it and hear it ...

She evaporated in a puff of smoke when I was barely 18 months old. Like many kids who grow up without any knowledge of one of their parents, I wondered what I did to cause her to bail. Silly, I know.