“Lay Some Flowers On My Grave”

September 19, 2012

This photo was among many collected by a great-aunt of my husband’s. My interest in cemeteries had led me to …

What she said

August 27, 2012

One of the writers I most admire in the world, Nicole Helget, posted this to my Facebook timeline on Sunday: …

August 14, 2012

“I see beauty in the ugly,” Richard Harris says in this Chronicle of Higher Education article, “A Healthy Mania …

August 10, 2012

I look forward to reading Jill Lepore‘s The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death. I was alerted …

August 9, 2012

“As a writer, your job is not merely to write; your job is to get people to care about what …

August 6, 2012

Tanner Kent was nice enough to interview me about my writing journey for the August 3 edition of The Mankato …

July 16, 2012

The front page of the July 15 Minneapolis StarTribune offered a story about QR codes on gravestones. QR codes are …

July 15, 2012

I don’t spend a lot of time each day thinking about cemeteries, especially now that I’m finished with most of …