Were you driving? Cell phone rings Kids in tow Tears flowing “Mom, what’s wrong?” Did you pull over? Did you tell them? Or did you not? “Nothing, honey. Moms just crying.” Or “Mom-mom just called. Pop-Pop died.” ***** Were you at work? “This isn’t good. You thought to yourself “Dad never calls me at work.” […]
Glenturret Distillery claims to be the oldest distillery in Scotland, but that fact may not be their ultimate claim to fame … at least from my perspective. Via wikipedia: Towser, a long-haired tortoiseshell female, the resident feline pest control expert at Glenturret from 1963 till 1987 [25] was an officially recognised record breaker. Her […]
The political vitriol that surrounds US Presidential campaigns started off at rock bottom this past week. Hillary Clinton announced her Presidential candidacy on Sunday and sometime on Monday the tombstone of her father was pushed over in the small Scranton, Pa. cemetery where he is buried. Let’s be clear: any heinous action that is done against something that […]
We’ve all smelled it. And like flatulence in church, nobody says anything. It’s that odd perfume that comes from Great Grandma Eunice when you reach down to give her a hug. It’s that odor that wafts through nursing homes. And now science is here to prove to us what we’ve already known. Older people have an odd […]
Morticians have been taught that embalming is the foundation of the funeral business. That without embalming … we’d be buried. During the modernization of America and at the beginning of the “American way of death”, embalming was the foundation. But we no longer exist in a modern paradigm, we exist in plurality and fragmentation with “American ways (!) […]