The suddenly warm temperature on top of deep snow raised a lush fog. Last night, driving on a narrow road next to the lake, I said, "This is what death looks like in the movies. Driving into nothing." All the familiar l…
Today is Veterans Day, a time to honor all military veterans. It is not, I think, a day to protest war. Yesterday, I was driving along the Speedway, the road between 2 cemeteries here in Madison. ( Here 's a picture I took of…
So I was just hanging around at home, trying to get some reading done, and I see reports predicting hailstorms -- hail 4 1/2 inches in diameter -- baseball size! I have never seen anything close to baseball-sized hail. And I don…
Cemeteries were... once. Shouldn't they be, again? Meet the cemetery architect. "People always say it's ghoulish," [Michael Howe] says, "but we also design things like lavatories and bathrooms, and that'…