My two favorite topics: obituaries and radicals

May 3, 2022

Should people be frozen in time, remembered for their worst moments? Think of your worst moment: is that how you’d …

Who knew his first wife was so famous?

December 2, 2014

My friend Kara turned me on to this obituary that appeared recently in the Minneapolis StarTribune. Occasionally you see obits written …

February 9, 2014

I’ve not ever been one to pass over a finely written obituary. One of the reasons I like the Sunday …

February 1, 2014

I recently read about a program held at high schools that takes teens through the “death experience” by simulating car …

July 11, 2012

I so appreciate obituaries written in first person. They are rare gems, at least in my daily newspaper, the Mankato …