updating this site at the moment. I’m keeping busy with a number of other projects, both personal and professional, but I do hope to start blogging here again in the near future. Watch this space – I still have a lot to say about travel, life, and making a home wherever you are!
arbitrary record store divider cards and to a lesser degree, the critics. Right in line with the way the Counter-Culture felt about integration and ethnicities, Rockers welcomed all forms of music. The Hard Rock Blues with Country and Jazz sound of The Allman Brothers’ was defined as “South...
from my high school chemistry teacher and his wife; to Sarah, a kindred widow herself, who knew to recommend a book on joy in the midst of my grief – you all have touched my heart in so many ways this past year. Diane, your note forever lives in my wallet, and the cards, ...
Welcome beloved friends and family, brothers and sisters, thank you all for being here. If you are hearing this, it is because I have finally succumbed to a poorly dealt hand, consisting of colon cancer, a really big thigh zit, a little bit of liver failure, and Alice. But don’t let...
You’re not sure whether or not my heart attackparanoiafinally manifested and there was a Blunt funeral that wasn’t even televised because some intern over at E! decided that Whitney Houston’s apparently trumped it or if I’m perfectly fine and just making you sweat it out. And you’re...
to work with. The director was warm and to the point, which is exactly what we needed because we all struggled to make decisions. The church where the funeral was held had a pastor that we connected with the moment we met him. We all felt this connection and a sense of peace. We ...
“He was the only nonfamily member who had the guts to go to the funeral.” So who was Al Smiley? Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1907 as Aaron Smehoff, Smiley and his family – father Hyman, mother Anne, sister Gertrude (who became a school teacher and lived in Winnipeg until her death...
10. Get your funeral sorted, or ensure your insurance has Spanish-friendly funeral cover. If you die (I mean really die, not just lose your file) you should legally be cremated or alternative arrangements confirmed within 24 hours – okay, maybe 48 on weekends. If you haven’t prearranged...
to do, because all I know is that my dad is not in this hospital, not in that body bag, not even in the beloved body. The funeral has come and gone. And on the back porch, Clover says to me, through uncharacteristic tears.Thank you, thank you for letting me be there when your ...
“Praiseworthy” is not in my lingo. My family is not Christian, but we really like a lot of Christians. Last night, in fact, we were around a lot of Christian friends at a funeral and we bowed our heads with them and prayed to the Heavenly Father and celebrated the life of a ...