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Nancy Comiskey

Author Nancy Comiskey poses in her new wig.
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Surviving A Personal Health Crisis During A Public One

The absolute worst of times.

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Dear Kate: Living with Grief

Ten years have passed since I last brushed Kate’s hair from her cheek. I’m not the same person I was then, and I know now I never will be. But I do the best I can with the life I have now.

Abby Brinkman
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Losing Abby

From the IM Archives: Abby Brinkman was an IU medical student working with impoverished children abroad. But then a tragic accident at sea cut short her promising life.

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Kate’s Story—A Mother’s Grief

One year after the tragic death of her daughter, Nancy Comiskey reflects on Kate and their lives together.

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Trials & Tribulations: The Path to Justice for My Daughter’s Killer

This was his 10th conviction. We left the justice center believing we could close the door on the criminal case. But a few years later, he walked out of prison a free man and moved 18 miles from our Brown County home. And he got a driver’s license.

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Street Savvy: Nashville, Indiana

Once a mechanical engineer, Brian Newton swept aside the stress of the workaday world to make “splendidly imperfect” brooms at Broomcorn Johnny’s.

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Brave New Burbs: Indy's Outlying Areas Are Booming

Millennials are the largest generation in U.S. history—and Indy’s suburbs realize they have to attract them to thrive.

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Cabin in the Woods

I came to Brown County the way many of us who live here did—first for a day, then for a weekend, now for good. My husband

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The Roads Less Traveled

Make no mistake: The hiking trails in Brown County State Park are among the finest in the country. Still, a walk around much-visited Ogle Lake on an October weekend

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Find Dining: Pine Room Tavern

Sometimes David Bower, the Pine Room Tavern’s GM and executive chef, has to give directions to city-dwelling callers. Left at the McDonald’s, again at the

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