Where’s the most unusual place you’ve been for a memorial service?

May 8, 2014

When I grew up in Waseca in the 1970s and ’80s, I don’t think I ever went to a …

Last Man Standing

December 30, 2013

I saw this today on Caleb Wilde’s Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook page, and I have to admit, it …

March 25, 2013

What’s the longest time you’ve stood in line at a wake? Wakes in Waseca are legendary—anyone who had lived in …

February 26, 2013

I just finished an amazing memoir, Thirty Rooms to Hide in: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of …

January 27, 2013

On January 23, I wrote about the transition from in-home wakes to wakes being held at funeral homes. Probably very …

January 23, 2013

Thanks to a Facebook friend, I came across the Avenidas Funeral Chapel‘s information page on the social networking site. This …

December 20, 2012

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