Wakes move from homes to community centers

January 27, 2013

On January 23, I wrote about the transition from in-home wakes to wakes being held at funeral homes. Probably very …

The “home” before there were funeral “homes”

January 23, 2013

Thanks to a Facebook friend, I came across the Avenidas Funeral Chapel‘s information page on the social networking site. This …

January 18, 2013

(An occasional series which highlights memoirs by celebrities who apparently have to do very little work in writing and/or selling …

January 14, 2013

I spent a couple of delightful hours at the office of the University of Minnesota Press today. I personally delivered …

January 13, 2013

How terrible would it be to have the word “cemetary” in a book about gravedigging? It almost happened! I just …

January 7, 2013

This column of mine appeared in the January 2013 issue of Mankato Magazine: My husband, David, likes to tell the …

January 4, 2013

Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
Susan Shapiro, on the NY Times Opinionator Blog, offers an excellent take on an issue that…

January 3, 2013

My memoir, WE’LL BE THE LAST ONES TO LET YOU DOWN, is now a Goodreads giveaway! You can enter until …

January 2, 2013

I thought this story from the Washington Post was brilliant. In times of national grief and sorrow, we can find …