My choice for best academic book of 2015
My choice for Inside Higher Ed‘s Readers’ Choice Awards for best academic book published this year: #IHEReadersChoice “Dead Matter” about …
Category Archives: Grief
Fallujah mortuary log book to be on display in Marine museum
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is expanding, and this log book from the mortuary at Fallujah will be …
What longing for a loved one looks like in a poem
I’m writing a chapter for my WIP on sibling loss, and I’ve read several enlightening studies. But I thought I’d …
25 years is a long time that goes by in the blink of an eye
For those of you who have read my book, you got to know Digger O’Dell (otherwise known as my dad), …
If you were to host an hour-long radio show of murder ballads, what would you choose?
What my friend and I picked as the best representation of murder in song.
3 things making me happy (Feb. 20). Sad, yes, but also beautiful.
Three sad things are making me happy this week. If you think that’s not possible, read on.
RIP Jim Zimmerman
I had heard he had not been well in the past couple of years. Still, I was saddened by the …
“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.
This study about children’s cartoons may surprise you
What percentage of children’s animated movies feature the death of a main character?
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 …
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 