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Showing posts with label obituary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obituary. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Obituaries Should Be Published At Least A Year Before People Die

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 As I read the obituaries in the Anchorage Daily News , I come across people that I really, really wish I would have known and could have ta...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Bill Allen - My Respect For Him As A Pre-Modern Man In A Modern World

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When I heard last week that Bill Allen had died, I immediately wanted to write a bit of a remembrance.  I sat through three different politi...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Lots of FaceTime With My Granddaughter, Blog Suffers, But World's A Better Place

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My oldest granddaughter is eight.  She's been FaceTiming with me fairly regularly.  Also teaching me the whole emoji alphabet and how to...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Bev Beeton, I'm Glad I Got To Know You

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 The Anchorage Daily News has an obituary for Beverly Beeton this week.   I was a faculty member at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Garth Jones Leaves A Big Hole As He Leaves Us At 95

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I saw the obituary in the ADN yesterday morning before my bike ride.  The picture was of a man who lived  at least 25 years before I met h...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Notes On The News: The Symbolism Of Killing Obamacare, Of Travel Bans, Hawaiian Shirts, And Of Income Taxes

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[These are my quick reactions to things I saw in the Alaska Dispatch News , paper edition, today.  Links are to what I could get online.  Th...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

". . . if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract," Ellsworth Kelly and Haskell Wexler

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The LA Times had two front page obituaries of people whose names weren't on the tip of my tongue. But they both struck me as people I wo...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Great Alaskan Walt Parker Departs

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Walt Parker June 2011 I met Walt Parker when I first arrived in Anchorage in 1977 because he was active in the local American Society fo...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Alaska Reporter Bob Tkacz Dies

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Bob Tkacz was found dead Tuesday.   I met him briefly while I blogged about the legislature in 2010.   Here's Bob Tkacz's empty chai...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Cal Worthington -" a cross between Dale Carnegie and Slim Pickens" -Joins His Dog Spot

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I just got an email with a link to the Cal Worthington Wikipedia page: Image from LA Times Calvin Coolidge "Cal" Worthing...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

The Art of Writing Obituaries - "I feel so lucky. . ."

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The obituaries I've written about in the past, like this one   or this one , were ones that raised my eyebrows a bit.  While I understan...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Where Would You Celebrate The Life Of Someone Who Died Of A Massive Heart Attack?

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Occasionally, I can't help but comment on something from the obituary page.  If I think my comments in any way could add to the family&...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Art of Obituary Writing

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This comes from an obituary in the Anchorage Daily News on page A8, Thursday, March 17, 2011: Mike Lawless, 59, died March 2, 2011, at hi...