Category Archive for: ‘In Memoriam’

• Tim Choate, RIP

  Time is infinite You are finite Motorcycle is wrong tool

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• Issues of Death

  So it turns out that if you die at home and aren’t on a priority for an autopsy, it can take 2-6 months (!) to get the lab results for your cause of death. Why does this matter? Because insurance won’t pay out until a …

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• </life>

  Roxanne Hutton died yesterday after a multi-year battle with inoperable brain cancer. I was upset enough about it that I couldn’t write about it yesterday. She’d won second place in the fall 2003 Writers of the Future contest, arguably the best in the field. Unfortunately, …

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• Ode to a Jeep

  In 1997, during the darkest, bleakest period of my life (being recently widowed at the time), I did something especially sensible: I bought a brand-new Jeep Cherokee, allowing my late husband’s Toyota Camry, called Frankencar (because it was built from the carcasses of three dead …

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