RIP Jim Zimmerman
I had heard he had not been well in the past couple of years. Still, I was saddened by the …
Category Archives: Cemeteries
“I cannot explain it but I wept”
One man and his two sons were tasked with the inconceivable work of burying 132 children after a school massacre in Pakistan.
Christmas at Arlington
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What’s a cemetery to do when it runs out of space?
If you run out of horizontal space, go vertical. That’s what they’re doing in Israeli cemeteries, according to this story …
A unique gesture to remember a sister
Continuing my lifelong fascination with true crime stories, I recently read People Who Eat Darkness, the story of a …
History! Fall colors! Cemetery walk in Mankato on Saturday, Sept. 27
If I weren’t presenting at the South Dakota Festival of Books this weekend, I would be participating in Mankato’s cemetery …
Portrait of a grave in William Kent Krueger’s “Ordinary Grace”
I just finished William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace. Toward the end, there’s a fantastic description of a grave and gravedigging …
An unexpected place to find beauty
A recent blog post by uber-popular funeral director Caleb Wilde (author of “Confessions of a Funeral Director”) resonated with me. …
Greenwood Cemetery, Bemidji, Minnesota
This wasn’t the most well-kept cemetery I’ve seen. A guy was mowing while I was there, and it looked like …
The Hanel reality tour (props to “Seinfeld”)
On Wednesday, I met with a book club who had taken a field trip to Waseca to visit cemeteries and …
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 