do they read obituaries in hell?

Sometimes when I'm out and about in life, I wish I could freeze time and have a photograph of whatever is in front of me, because it so...

Today, as I was about to send the images of our invitations to the printer, Jon mentioned that I should ask cc (as in COPY chief) to give th...

Madelyn is somewhere in Iowa, driving a car packed full of her worldly belongings, moving here. I am frantically trying to get everything in...

My fiance doesn't drink. He's never done drugs. He doesn't look for a thrill in gambling. And when we pull up to a red light nex...

"Here, I got this for you--it's still pretty warm, I think just your temperature." "Wow, this is so good I'm eating...

" 'Where were YOU when you heard Osama bin Laden was dead?' " "Seriously. These guys are so dramatic. Especially th...

"So...I see you still haven't responded to my request on Facebook." "What, that relationship status thing?" ...

A long time ago when people used to make fun of me for knitting (before it was a trendy hipster thing to do) and making clothes and other cr...

On Friday, I switched shifts so I could get together in Greektown with my girls from college for dinner. This was remarkable because a) in t...

When my brother and I were kids, we really wanted a dog. Like ready-to-bargain-on-Christmas/Birthday-presents-really-wanted-a-dog. There wer...

I don't have any kids. But I do think my parents are the cutest. I had Pandora playing on my phone during an especially crazy night at w...

Long, long ago I knew a person who watched me take four months to knit a sweater and said, "why would you go to all that trouble when y...

Today is my mother's birthday. 6-0. For real this time. Last year, her friends took her out and made her wear a plastic tiara and gave...

Wedding planning has been frustrating. It's been well-documented that I freak out when having to make decisions . The fact that we made ...

Wow, SIX years of Do They Read Obituaries in Hell. Here's what you may have missed: The next thing I remember was that I was having a ...

"Your hair is getting long, Cadiz!" "Yeah, I guess it is. My mom and I are going to cut and donate our hair after the weddi...

My brother travels a lot for work, and often gets assigned to towns around the U.S. I'd never heard of, such as Truth Or Consequences, N...

A few months ago, two people in the span of a week told me that white people are becoming a minority. One in person to my face, and one on F...

Often when my brother calls me, he doesn't really talk. He will ask what I'm doing and then has nothing to add. I'll follow up w...

It only (ONLY) took 3-4 hours to get the driveway passable. And the whole time I wanted to throw the shovel down and jump up on that size-of...