Advice from a small town girl

I’ve been thinking about what I would want people to say about me at my funeral three years from now.

Don’t start celebrating prematurely – I’m not dying, at least as far as I know.

No, this is an exercise from a book called “Managing Your Mind, The Mental Fitness Guide,” by Gillian Butler, PhD and Tony Hope, MD.

I think the theory is that if you want people to say something nice about you when you die, you need at least three years to set them up for it.

I picked the book up at a Friends of the Library book sale (I think), mostly because I’m not yet ready to give up on my theory that the more...