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 …

More thoughts on the Newtown wakes

December 20, 2012

Other thoughts regarding Newtown: How many parents brought their children to the wake(s) of their classmates? I was eight years …

December 19, 2012

After simply just trying to process what happened in Newtown, CT (which cannot be processed–you only can try), after reading …

October 10, 2012

On Tuesday I spoke to about 25 students in Dr. Don Ebel’s Sociology of Death class at MSU-Mankato. I gave …

August 22, 2012

This post first appeared on my Red Room blog. My favorite memoir is Alison Bechdel’s FUN HOME. The subject matter …