Memento Mori. Remember you must die. Not as a message of fear — but as a reminder to live with urgency and intention. Marcus ...

When I was a little girl, I lived in my grandparents’ home, alongside my father and brother. Because of this, I was privy to a lot of early life lessons, particularly related to death. I would ...

From writer extraordinaire Cory Doctorow, via the equally extraordinary Make Magazine intermediary: I’m often puzzled by how satisfying older technology is. What a treat it is to muscle around an ...

While skulls and skeletons have assumed a scary, morbid and often occultish connection, the religious sister says that’s not the case if viewed with the right frame of mind. The book cover of ‘Memento ...

In Pompeii’s ruins, buried beneath three meters of volcanic ash, was a two-millennia-old mosaic concerning the transitoriness of all things. Now exhibited in the National Archeology Museum in nearby ...

How to remember that we must die on Ash Wednesday. Whenever anyone entered my childhood home in upstate New York, they would see two framed black-and-white photographs on our dining room table. If ...