Coffin Cocaine & Christmas Easter Eggs | 4M #170 Welcome to the hundred-and-seventieth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #170, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit! Another kind of niche Forbes recently featured […] Read More
12 Days of Funeral Christmas | FFFW 217 DISCLAIMER: None of the F’s in FFFW stand for “facts.” Enjoy the jokes and satire. Y’all! It’s the last Friday before Christmas! I couldn’t be happier about it. See, I’m a firm believer that the world needs Christmas. In a practical sense- […] Read More
Next week is Chrsitmas. . . . . And, almost everybody has their own traditions on how they spend time with their family or their community. But what about your funeral home? What are the traditions that they follow? Having looked-forward to annual traditions is not only […] Read More
Tukios Offers Christmas Memorial Ornaments to Honor Loved Ones OGDEN, Utah – Tukios is helping families remember loved ones during the holiday season with high-quality, customizable Christmas Memorial Ornaments. These meaningful ornaments are available for those with a Tukios website. They are available in white, silver, or black powder coat […] Read More
On Christmas Eve, a small group of bystanders watched as a young golden eagle was released into Black Star Canyon in Silverado, 10 days after it was found out in the ocean. The large bird, only out of the nest for an estimated five or six months, was spotted Dec. […] Read More
NEW YORK — The staffers at Uptown Christmas Trees have a saying they live by for one month of the year: Sell the effing tree. But in order to sell the effing tree, a crew first needs to move the effing trees. So on one recent bitter December night — the […] Read More
You’ll need $46,000 to afford the 12 Days of Christmas You’ll need $46,000 to afford the 12 Days of Christmas 00:25 If you still need to find a (very) last-minute gift on Christmas Day or track down an ingredient for your holiday feast, you may need to hunt around for […] Read More
Air quality regulators today banned indoor and outdoor wood burning in much of the Southland on Christmas Day due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area. The residential wood-burning ban will be in effect from 12:01 a.m. until midnight Monday for all those in the South Coast […] Read More
Air quality regulators today banned indoor and outdoor wood burning in much of the Southland on Christmas Day due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area. The residential wood-burning ban will be in effect from 12:01 a.m. until midnight Monday for all those in the South Coast […] Read More
Tips for last-minute holiday shopping Tips for last-minute holiday shopping 04:27 With the arrival of Christmas Eve inevitably comes the last-minute rush for gifts and ingredients for holiday meals. Before running out the door to buy those groceries or presents, you might want to check whether the retailers or grocery […] Read More
When I was a child and Christmas Eve came on one of the nights of Hanukkah, Aunt Helen and Uncle Ralph came to our house and gave each of the children a five-dollar bill. They actually did this every Hanukkah but somehow it was more fun on Christmas Eve. Fiftysome years […] Read More
“Super Saturday” brings out droves of Christmas shoppers – CBS News Watch CBS News Shoppers were expected to turn out in huge numbers for the last Saturday before Christmas, known to retailers as “Super Saturday.” The National Retail Federation predicts 16 million more people will shop today than on the […] Read More
The “darkest day of the year” in the northern hemisphere occurs on December 21-22 each year. It is known as the “Winter Solstice” and the sun shines the least during that time period in the northern hemisphere than at any other 24-hour period of the year. Well, today […] Read More
As the countdown to Christmas narrows to just 10 days, the United States Postal Service is issuing a last call to holiday gift senders. The cutoff date for USPS first-class mail is set for Saturday — marking a crucial deadline to ensure gifts arrive in time for the festive season. This […] Read More
Just in time for Christmas, two tremendously popular programs have returned. The first is Sounds of the Season, a jazz-oriented musical program that will air for 36 hours this year – starting at noon on Sunday, December 24th and running until midnight on Monday, December 25th. Wait … is it […] Read More
