CaringBridge

Quick plug for CaringBridge:

As I mentioned below, I lost a dear friend this week to cancer. He was greatly loved and really unable to communicate much at all for several months now and spent the last few weeks in Houston Hospice.

His wife used the website above to keep his legions of friends updated and his legions of friends could post their wishes and prayers there as well. When they first started using the site I thought it rather impersonal but after reading the hundreds of posts of friends family and the updates from his wife, I realized how much easier it made things for her. In the end in many ways she was comforting us. She wrote that reading the posts from friends to him meant a lot to both. Posts from the hoi poloi kept out by virtue of a password system.

Seems like the site turned out to be really useful. It doesn't have to be used only in dire times but happy times as well, e.g., tracking a pregnancy.