Now Denice is at the party, I'm sorry to say. Her laminated prayer card, which in three years still has not convinced me that “when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance ...

I found myself starting to save the prayer ... people do with them. After a wake this week for a friend's brother, a few of us were chatting about what we do with all those holy cards.

"After more than 30 years of handing prayer cards to customers aboard its planes, Alaska Airlines has decided the practice is outdated and will stop doing it on Feb. 1," The Seattle Times reports.