Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 27, 2009
Forbes.com: Milwaukee is America's second safest city
Forbes.com is out with its latest list, "America's Safest Cities." Greater Milwaukee came in second.
Tags: Forbes.com, lists, safe cities, crime, rankings, natural disaster, death, police

Kids & Family - Aug. 22, 2009
Processing a death
I got a text from my husband while I was in Boston this week that simply read, "Ginger died."
Tags: hamster, death, pet death, gerbils

Movies & TV - April 7, 2009
"Marley & Me" cuts too close to the bone
I think I made a mistake last night by watching the film "Marley & Me." I'm not saying this because I thought the film was a waste of time, but because I have a 13-year-old, deaf, gray-muzzled Lab who can barely walk up the stairs.
Tags: marley & me, jennifer aniston, owen wilson, dogs, death

Kids & Family - Feb. 4, 2009
Our first fish fatality
"Crap, we have a floater," I thought in my head last night when I went to shake food flakes into our 1-year-old Betta fish's bowl. This isn't, however, what I said to my son who was "daddy" to the deceased fish named Dunebuggy.
Tags: fish, death, betta fish, kids and death

Arts & Entertainment - Jan. 22, 2008
Tasteful presentation, humor make "Body Worlds" easier to stomach
I saw "Body Worlds" at the Milwaukee Public Museum on Monday, and found it engrossing, educational, freaky and beautiful.
Tags: Body Worlds, Milwaukee Public Museum, Plastination, plastinates, death

Living - Sept. 17, 2009
The 40 Days and 40 Nights of 40: Day 16
I see dead people.More than ever.  I know that people have always been dying but I think there's a point where you begin wondering who's next.... and looking around at your friends and family.I lost friends and family in my 20s and 30s, my Mom died in 2005.  But, now, it's like every we...
Tags: death, friends, family, 40

Living - Sept. 4, 2009
The 40 Days and 40 Nights of 40: Day 4
The 40 Days and 40 Nights of 40: Day 4 Here's something from the "nights."  In fact, last nightSingle and 40.  Now, there's nothing wrong with being single.  I enjoy it.  You have complete autonomy, but that's not always the way other peole feel.  I ha...
Tags: single, 40, forty, alone, time, divorce, death, dating, couple

Living - Sept. 2, 2009
Forty Days and Forty Nights of 40: Day 2
Forty Days and Forty Nights of 40: Day 2 Forty is still middle-age, unless all your friends are living until 100.  Even though we are living longer and better, now is the time when you often deal with issues of mortality. As I was preparing for this blog, I was also preparing f...
Tags: death, tolle, eckhart, 40, forty