While I don't always miss TO, there is nowhere I would rather be at this moment. My friend, Wendy Babcock, was found dead at her home on Aug. 9; an apparent suicide. Wendy's loss hurts; all death does but this is the second suicide in my circle in the past 13 months. My ex-wife Tricia killed herself last July. Suicide, post-Katrina is New Orleans; most people I have met know one or more people who have taken their own life.

In November 2009, CBC profiled Wendy on the show Connect with Mark Kelley. View the video here.