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Lemons To Lemonade: "Finding The Good"

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Algonquin Books

A recent guest pointed out that gravestones contain the year of birth, the year of death, and a dash in between.  And it's up to us to determine what that dash represents. 

Heather Lende can (and will) tell us all about that. 

Her stint as an obituary writer for a small-town newspaper taught her a lot about what's important in life; she shares the knowledge in her book Find The Good

We get the secrets of good obituary writing... and living the lives that make for interesting obituaries.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.