My new-age wife has all sorts of ways of talking about death that I don't quite understand. Eleven years ago, she called and said that her husband Jim, one of my best friends, was "singing with the angels." Well, hell, Jim was always singing with somebody. So, I asked her bluntly, "Did he die?"
Yes, she said.

Still and all, I ended up married to Jim's widow, and it's almost ten years we've been married - and I still puzzle about some things she says. But hey, I love her.

-Joe-