The days after losing a loved one can feel overwhelming. While coping with grief, families may also need to make quick decisions about the wake, ceremony, burial or cremation, and informing relatives. For a Buddhist funeral, there may also be chants, offerings, prayers, and customs to arrange. These traditions can vary between Buddhist communities and … Read more
Most people probably have a stack of baby photographs stored in some kind of box of memories-whether they are sitting in an old album filled with cobwebs, hiding inside our phones, or they are scattered across all corners of our closets. They represent precious memories from your baby’s first year (the first birthday party) to … Read more
A majority of families will have lost most of their history by the time two more generations have passed. It’s not that nobody was interested, but that nobody recorded anything. The anecdotes, the background, the very essence of a person’s being – lost. Preserving your ancestry is not something to undertake as a project for … Read more