The many uses of a blog

My stand-in sister of sorts -- Ms. CTP --– lost her little sister two weeks ago today. She turned her quirky travel blog, fromacafe, into a tribute to the great Lindsey to help keep family and friends abreast of memorial news and to share images of a very photogenic, healthy, baby boy named Hudson. It's really nicely done. Just over a year ago, I was in a similar position when my little brother died suddenly and way too young. I was very shy about posting on the subject -- even on his first posthumous birthday last year. Well, pictured below is a little glimpse of the one-year memorial gathering in Princeton just last month. Yes, it's off this blog's subject, but... they're some of my brothers' closest friends --– from middle school, high school, college, summer breaks & real-world work -- & then there's me, from birth. (Psst: The two chicas in black jackets farthest to the right are both expecting niños, right around the same time in September.)
Today the NY Times has an article about other sorts of mourning websites: Web Sites Set Up to Celebrate Life Recall Lives Lost