After much deliberation, I've decided to make all of my past journal entries private. I haven't written anything of substance in it for many years anyway. In a way, my desire to journal died when Karen did. It was something the two of us did together and it never felt quite right doing it without her. I am now on FaceBook and communicate with quite ( Read more... )

Seeing as we're now in the middle of October, and with October comes the inevitable onslaught of Breast Cancer Awareness marketing, I thought this may be a good time to link to some of Karen's posts about the commercialization of this month.  Those of you who read Karen's journal know that she always posted at least a few entries in October of each ( Read more... )

I honestly have no idea how to start this post.  So, I will state the basic facts:

Karen died this Sunday morning at 1:05am.I've thought of a million ways to make this post.  I tried to anticipate my every emotion and then tried to figure out exactly how I would get them down on virtual paper.  Little did I know that I'd be wasting my time trying ( Read more... )

I am sitting here in front of my latptop at a little past midnight in a room at the Chicago Renaissance hotel. Karen is sleeping peacefully a few feet away ( Read more... )