Below I’ve gathered links to my favorite blogs. I’m sure they’ll change from time to time.
- Home Is Where the Dead Hookers Are – a love letter to my Second City chums.
- Connecting Purpose to Loss – sharing a bit of an a-ha inkling about how losing Ken led to a sense of purpose
- The Sanctuary of Sameness – In light of the shootings in Orlando at a gay Club, I write about my first memory of going to a bar in Chicago.
- If You Build It, They Will Come (Like It or Not) – Recalling when my parents bought a church and turned it into our house
- The Rule of Three – A love letter to my two incredible sisters
- The Day They All Knew My Name – On a cold wintry day in the 80s, an AMC Pacer burst into flames in an Indiana high school parking lot.
- Belonging – Another love letter, this one to four close friends who attended Second City with me.
- The Dime Store of Broken Dreams – My parents owned a dime store in our little town in the 70s. This is the story of how I bankrupted it.
- My Awkward Acquaintance – This one is about my coming to terms with June 1, the date on which Ken died.
- Connecting – Months after Ken died, someone gave me a message from him.
- January 18: A Decade Later – Taking a look ten years ago to Ken’s historic hemipelvectomy and the beginning of our journey with his cancer.
- The Refuge of Fridays – A counterpoint to The Pinch of Fridays I wrote in 2012