Posts in 2025
What Responsible Executors Ask Before Signing a Memorial Contract

A headstone catalog spread across a living room table, pages held down by a coffee cup and a pen. Vendors send digital proofs and warranty promises, but contract wording varies widely. Executors now face direct choices about material origin, engraving methods, installation charges, and timeline commitments as more memorial services include prearranged purchases and remote approvals.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Rental Family

To fully accept the societal and emotional terrains of Hikari’s outstanding dramedy Rental Family, one is required not so much to make an enormous leap into a lurid scenario, but rather, let’s say, a long step. You will need a stretched lunge forward that closes the typical arm’s length of observational distance from something you don’t entirely know or accept. That gingerly-taken step merges you into a different comfort zone than your own

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MOVIE REVIEW: Wicked: For Good

Matching the changing weather and seasons happening in much of the world during the time of its illustrious release, Wicked For Good requires more than one firm temperature check, if you will. This bookend finale asks a great deal of its audience with a decidedly different mood, as the plot leaps five years ahead in time from the events of last year’s Wicked. Much of the bright, sunny, and friendly school-aged singing and dancing has evolved to power ballads that emote the traumatic heft of current circumstances.

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