the latest posts tagged ‘cremation’
dear craig: an elephant’s tale
Dear Craig: Tom and I were watching the news on TV the other night. A cemetery somewhere had been opening old graves and moving bones to a communal pit so they could resell the plots. A woman whose grandfather’s grassy space now held Someone Who Is Not Grandpa was furious, screaming and crying….
101 Words: Ashes to Ocean, Dad to Dust
“How’d it go?” “Fine.” “Mom thinks she saw the plane.” “No way, not out beyond Point Lobos.” “Did the ashes …” “Yeah. We had to make the mortuary package into two smaller ones to get them out that tiny window. Alan spilled some on the tarmac and freaked. John saved them, though.” “There was no”…