It is with terrible sadness that I report the passing of my brother Robert this afternoon. It was a difficult last few months, and he just couldn’t pull out of […]

April 22: One last update on this post: Sunday morning: I’ve spoken with my brother Robert twice a day since he was taken off life support, and each time his […]

Since I was 13 years old, I’ve been hanging with the same group of friends from Long Island. Of course, living in the Midwest for 25 years, Funk had only […]