A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss ...

It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including ...

Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no deliveries of food and no hugs. For months afterward ...

Then I heard about the wind phone. At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located in a secluded spot in nature, usually within a booth-type structure and often next to a ...

And for those old enough to remember rotary phones, it hits home in another way. That was part of the conversation among a small group of people who gathered for a dedication on a steamy Saturday ...

And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred a wall phone, but those are really hard to find,” said Monte Lee, general manager of the cemetery and ...