"Be careful what you say around her...she may blog about it." I heard that remark more than once when attending a family event recently - always the same person saying it, my brother-in-law Robert.He has a way of taking the most serious of occasions and making light of it, not out of disrespect. In this case, we were burying a loved one, hardly a time for levity. People cannot be sad always though when a death occurs.I remember my own husband back in 1997, when UPS delivered the box containing his father's ashes to his brother-in-law who happened to answer the door. We were inadvertently re-enacting "A Christmas Carol" with the possessions left in the house. "Does it feel like it weighs 300 pounds?" said my husband. We all laughed. The healing needs to begin, the sooner the bette...
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