We love it when a family brings the family dog to attend the funeral.  It might seem weird, but when the dog is there, they’re usually able to sense the mood of the gathering and mirror the mood. It’s as though dogs mourn.  And I’d like to believe that there exists a language of love […]

The trapdoor works fine.  

Dan Peeples, the Vice President of Julian Peeples Funeral Homes shared with me this beautiful, little good deed. He writes, I was on my way to the church for the funeral of a 36 year old firefighter. As I’m driving the family car, the little 5 year old son says, “Mommy, I thought daddy was […]

I’m not a fan of huge grave monuments.  Freud talked about them being a phallic symbol of pride (i.e. an afterlife form of dick measuring) and I’d have to agree with him.  Large and grandiose monuments seem to say, “my dead body is more important than your dead body.” And while large monuments may be […]

Yes, Microsoft has finally decided to phase out Internet Explorer. But … I really think this should be celebrated. We should celebrate because the murder rate should drastically drop as the lack of slow uploads will quell our murderous intentions: The weapon of mass crashing has been disarmed … We will no longer be put in […]