I love a great epitaph. G.N. “Pete” Vander Linden, the wise and witty longtime proprietor of Hoquiam’s Coleman Mortuary, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The emails about visiting grave sites keep coming. The last count is 203. I knew the topic would interest some people, but I never expected such a huge response – many saying they ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For most of my life, I rarely visited the graves of people who were important to me. I just thought it was enough to remember how they were when alive. But that changed this week. On ...

On a recent sunny Saturday this fall, I visited Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Queen Anne. As soon as I arrived at the cemetery, my mood lifted. The traffic noise receded, replaced by birdsong. The fall ...