death

May 30: An Ode to My Dead on Decoration Day

05.30.2010

You should know from the outset that my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek.  This post will not mention the decorated dead of America’s many wars.  Not that they don’t deserve it, but, hey, this is an ode to my personal dead.

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The Ultimate in Pre-Planning

05.10.2010

I think it’s only fitting that our funerals should reflect our lives, be a celebration of our lives, not just cookie-cutter ceremonies.

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Going Home–While You Still Can

02.01.2010

Time really does move faster when you’re older….I just blinked and 2009 had passed me by before I realized it…and 2010 is already moving just as fast!

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She Said, She Said: On eating, death and other such things

05.17.2009

The back of one of these senior photos says, “I think we are both creatives nuts and that’s why we get along so well.”   From Day One, we shared a sense of humor, along with–and about–all the traumas and dramas of growing up.   It doesn’t seem to us like anything has changed, and [...]

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MidLife Suicides: Blaming The Victim?

10.24.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife There’s a startling and rather depressing discussion going on at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast over the American Journal of Preventative Medicine’s newly released study on baby boomers and suicide: [B]etween 1999 and 2005, the suicide rate lept by 3.9 percent among white women aged 40 to 64, and [...]

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One Last Look

08.24.2008

by Tori Taff, of Babybloomr As I slowly back out of my parents’ driveway (after ostentatiously making a show of double-checking seatbelts and adjusting mirrors because I know they’re watching), I tell the girls to “Wave!” and we vigorously waggle our arms and blow big sloppy kisses as we head down their quiet street and [...]

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Making every day count

08.14.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane Almost every day, my husband reminds me that I’m probably going to outlive him. He has reason to think so: he’s ten years older than I am, a diabetic with high blood pressure, and his family members have tended to die quite a bit younger than mine. It used [...]

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Wendy Wasserstein

01.30.2006

died. Who even knew she was that sick? Am I so out of the loop? Does it matter? Well, yes, to me it does. Years ago, when Uncommon Women and Others first came out, she was not so much an icon, but a high-beam light showing that schlubby Jewish girls did have something to say [...]

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