Labor Day Weekend Is When I Drive Home to Tend the Family Plot
Every Labor Day weekend, I pack my trunk with a bucket, soft brushes, and a jug of D/2 Biological Solution, and I drive three hours back to the little ceme
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Someone Spray-Painted My Father's Grave: What I Did First
I'll never forget the phone call.
Cleaning Gold Leaf Lettering on a Headstone Without Lifting the Gild
I’ll never forget my first screw-up with gold leaf.
Wet & Forget vs D/2 on Headstones: Which I Reach For
I still remember the day I found my great-great-grandmother's headstone.
Wetting a Headstone to Read It: The Plain-Water Trick That's Actually Safe
Last spring, I was out in an old cemetery near Millbrook, New York — the one with the overgrown boxwoods and the broken iron gate that squeaks like a dying
Tending My Son's Grave the Week His Class Graduated Without Him
I’ve cleaned a lot of headstones over the years.
Candle Wax on the Headstone: Removing It Without a Scraper
I’ll never forget the first time a family called me in a panic.
Leaving vs Removing Other People's Grave Decorations: My Rule of Thumb
I'll never forget the first time I got yelled at in a cemetery.
The Shaving Cream Headstone Trick: Please Don't
I remember the first time someone asked me about it.
Veterans Day at Dad's Marker: Cleaning the Flag Holder, Not Just the Stone
Last Veterans Day, I drove out to the National Cemetery like I always do.
Cleaning My Twin Sister's Half of Our Shared Headstone on Our Birthday
My twin sister Claire and I were born on a scorching July morning 52 years ago.
Why My Ceramic Photo Medallion Yellowed and How I Brightened It
I found my great-great-grandmother's headstone completely overgrown last spring.