Shane Rhyne

I thought it would be a good idea to collect some links of blog posts Katie’s friends and readers wrote in response to Henry’s death. I think- at some point in the future- she’ll take some comfort from the kind words shared and the frank and serious conversations Henry inspired.

By the time she gets ready to read these, I wanted them to be easy for her to find. So, I’m putting together this online memory album of blog entries about Henry and his family for Katie to read when she’s ready.

It is quite likely I won’t catch all of them, but I’ll do my best. Please feel free to let me know if there are others you know about.

Katie has been courageous in sharing the story of Henry’s addiction and the events that led to his hospitalization and death. Now, she has taken on the challenge of bravely sharing the raw wound of grief as she also pursues justice in the search for those who assaulted her son. Her courage has inspired words of comfort and support from bloggers across the online spectrum: from the New York Times to small personal journals.

A collection of blog posts penned in the days following Henry’s death follows after the jump.

UPDATE: To date, I have identified and linked to posts on 161 blogs.

For lack of a better system (and to appeal to the librarian who lives in my soul), I have simply alphabetized the entries by the name of their blog.

• 21st Century Stepdad Man – Some thoughts following a funeral
• 37 Paddington – Henry Louis Granju, 1991-2010
• 117 Hudson – A crossroads
• 500Jerk – The Mess! It’s Back!
• ABC: Life from the Start of the Alphabet – Prayers for a hurting family
• The Accidental Olympian – Forgive me, this isn’t going to be an LOL type of post
• Adventures in Juggling – Heartbreak
• Always Running – Sadness from another mommy blogger
• And Triplets Make Six – Call to Action
• Angelawd – Control is an illusion
• Anocial – A family’s pain shared gives social media the power to change lives
• Apt. 11D – Losing a son
• Apt. 11D – Drug addiction in middle class families
• Ariel Gore – Thinking of Henry
• Audio Archives – Justice for Henry
• Austin Holistic Parenting on a Dime – Thinking about Henry and Katie
• Avonturen Vanuit ons Hoekje Van de Wereld – Memorial Day (Dutch language site)
• Baby Squared – For Katie
• Barefoot Lovey’s Blog – Sadness…
• Barking Mad – Because I’ve walked down this road
• Bearing Blog – Sad story
• Bearing Blog – Update to my post about Katie Granju and her son Henry
• Big Kid – Mom blogger Katie Allison Granju loses teen son
• Big Life; Small Space – Sundries
• Blog de DanceDivam – No justice for Henry
• Blog de DanceDivam – Open entreaty to Knox County Sheriff’s Office
• Blog de DanceDivam – Remembering Henry
• BlogHer – RIP, Henry Louis Granju
• Boongablogger – Death and blogging
• Brian’s Blog – My heart breaks!
• A Broken Compass – Minimal Monday on a Tuesday
• The Camera Shy Journal – Perspective
• Child Perspective – Finding courage in desperate times
• Child Perspective – The tragic update
• The Chronicles of Chez LaMarr – My name is X and I am the mother of a drug addict
• Cleaning Up the Clutter – Forget the cleaning, spend time with your kids today
• Collie’s Corner – In which I talk about my kids
• Cookin’ Like Crazy! – A sad day
• Crib Chronicles – Mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird
• Crunchy Granola – Goodwill
• D.I.Y. – The good, the bad, and the downright ugly…
• DadWagon – A death in the blogging community
• The Daily Grind of a Work at Home Mom – On controlling our kids
• Daily Pulse – Henry Louis Granju, 1991-2010
• Daughter of Opinion – The things that happen to other people
• Did I Read the Fine Print? – Henry Granju
• Did I Read the Fine Print? – More on Henry Granju
• Domestic Psychology – Sunsets
• The Elmo Wallpaper – For Katie Granju
• Famecrawler – Chace Crawford might go to jail: Bad for him, good for kids?
• Flux Capacitor – The loss of young Henry Granju
• Frank Murphy – Unnecessary deaths
• From My Front Porch in the Mountains – Beautiful Boy
• From Under the Laundry Piles – The worst thing that could happen
• Fruit Salad – The path not taken
• GoJennings – Henry Louis Granju 1991-2010
• Halfway to Normal – Let’s be frank
• Ham Towne – Everyone deserves justice
• The Happiest Mom – Going on living after a child has died
• Happymommyblog – A loss…
• Her Bad Mother – Things that go bump in the light of day
• HipMama – Henry Louis Granju 1991-2010
• Hippie Cool Chick – The brick through the window
• Hit Coffee – Saddest posts this week
• Hit Coffee – Avenging Henry
• Hit Coffee – Avenging Henry II
• Hobo Mama – Sunday Surf
• Holding Down the Fort – Thinking of Katie
• Homestead Geek – The overwhelming suffering of others
• Hormone-Colored Days – I laughed, I cried, I thought, then I cried some more
• I Am Socially Awkward – Henry Granju
• I Buy Cheap Toilet Paper – Day two. Not about me.
• I Most Definitely Control the Spice – Today there is a shadow of sadness
• In the News – The war on drugs is one of hypocrisy
• In the Parenthood – In memory of Henry: A fund to help kids battling with addiction
• Instapundit – Some people want to know how to help
• Instapundit – Justice for Henry
• Instapundit – When it calls for an investigation, and the law enforcement folks seem to be dragging their feet
• Jagadiah – Tweeting real life and nonsense
• Jelazakazone – Profound and mundane
• Just Enjoy Him – RIP, H
• Just Enjoy Him – Bad days; still counting blessings
• Kabobs & Apple Pie – You wouldn’t understand
• The Know It All Mom – One joint is one too many
• KnoxViews – Sad news
• KnoxViews – With a little help from her friends
• KnoxViews – Slow Justice
• Laundry for Six – Lazy linky Friday
• Laura Writes – Not talking, but listening
• Les Jones – Henry Granju and Johnia Berry
• Life…by Laura Lou – Guilt, and judgment
• Life Decanted – Trying to stop the wind (in memory of Henry)
• Life in Every Limb – One Way to Help
• Life in Every Limb – A mother’s plea for justice
• Life in Every Limb – Discouraging
• Life in Every Limb – Remember
• Literary Mama – In Memory of Henry Granju
• A Little Bit Random – Mamapundit
• Living My Social Work – Where you never ever want to go
• Lo and Behold – What’s on my mind?
• Love That Max – The circles of parent hell
• The Lynnster Zone – In lieu of flowers for Henry
• The Lynnster Zone – First the good part
• The Lynnster Zone – In which I ask, “How is beating someone with a tire iron not a criminal and arrest-worthy act?”
• The Lynnster Zone – First things first: down here in Tennessee we call that shameful
• The Lynnster Zone – Next things next: The truth is out there
• Magpie Musings – The distribution of the thousand dimes
• MamaJake – Goodbye Henry Granju
• Mami Dearest – RIP Henry Granju
• Many Good Things – Random Wednesday – now with more awesome!
• Marie-Eve in Montreal – 18 (and a whole life to go)
• MartiniMade – No words, really.
• Melospiza – Technically June 1 is summer don’t even argue
• The Memphis Blog – Justice for Henry
• Midlife Mama – Sad stories
• Middle-Aged Diva – When dreams die young
• Minnesota Mamaleh – High love, high control
• Miss Zoot – Nothing More That I Can Say
• The Modernity Ward – Some mama’s baby
• Mom2Mom – Mamapundit’s son dies of drug overdose
• Momformation – He was beautiful
• Mommy Needs Coffee! – Heartbreaking news
• Mommy Prayers – Prayer for breathing. Thinking of Henry.
• Mother Grieving Loss of Child – Wednesdays woe: Picking up pieces
• Motherlogue – Toddlers to teens
• The More, the Messier – Parenting Illusions
• The Mother of All Parenting Blogs – A night when I long to be with other mothers
• Mothering Outside the Lines – A life ending deal
• Mothering Outside the Lines – Talking to (little) kids about drugs and other hard stuff
• Mothering Outside the Lines – Nine tips for talking to your kids about drugs
• Motherlode – Updates
• Motherlode – Describing Grief
• Ms. Booty Homemaker Explains It All to You – Weeping from the universal mother place at another mama’s unimaginable loss
• Musings from the Big Pink – Hoarders for the last time I promise
• Musings Musings Musings – Weekly round-up
• My Crazy Mommy Life – I just read a story of a woman who lost her son to drugs
• My Crazy Mommy Life – Henry Louis Granju
• No Silence Here – A Tragic Loss and the Power of Words
• No Silence Here – Folks react to Henry’s story, death
• No Silence Here – Helping Katie and her family
• No Silence Here – Police investigating Henry Granju’s death
• No Silence Here – Funding Henry’s legacy
• No Silence Here – An outpouring of support continues
• No Silence Here – Henry’s story on NYT blog, ‘Motherlode’
• No Silence Here – Henry’s death: reaction, support continues
• No Silence Here – Mother: find Henry’s killer(s)
• No Silence Here – Some sound advice for the Granju family
• No Silence Here – Henry’s mother expresses frustration
• No Silence Here – More reaction to Henry’s death pours in
• No Silence Here – You think they’re blogging about Henry?
• No Silence Here – Twittering a mother’s nightmare
• No Silence Here – Just posted on Knoxnews.com
• No Silence Here – Blogs react: 100+ linked to Henry’s story
• No Silence Here – A Song for Henry
• No Silence Here – Sheriff: no weapon, proscecution in Henry’s death
• Noodlefood – A tragic death
• Northern Girl in a Southern Land – I am lucky
• Not Raising Brats – Preparing for the worst
• Notes from Dhaka – A very long time ago
• Observations on Faith – Henry Granju
• Organically Inclined – Lend a hand – rest in peace Henry Granju
• Our Little Circus – Henry Louis Granju
• Parent Hacks – When things go wrong
• ParentsDeck – In Memory of Henry Granju
• Pattie’s Pop Culture Paradise – Supporting a local blogger
• Play, Eat, Love – Henry Louis Granju 1991-2010
• Pocket Rockettes – Rip H. Granju
• Prairie Road – In memory of Henry Louis Granju (1991-2010)
• Quasi-Eloquent Mom – If you’re reading this
• Quasi-Eloquent Mom – The teenage syndrome
• Ramblin’ Man – ‘In Lieu of Flowers’ for Henry Granju
• The Republican Mother – Rule 5 Sunday
• Robin’s Blue Skies – The saddest news of all
• A Room of Mama’s Own – In memory of Henry Louis Granju
• Runaway Sentence – Beautiful boy
• She Knows – Life, death, parenting and Katie Allison Granju
• She Talks – A cautionary tale with a very sad ending
• ShePosts – Attachment parenting expert + blogger loses son to drugs
• Single Dad Blog – A dose of reality
• Skimming the Surface – Henry
• Speak to Power – Henry’s Legacy
• Speak to Power – The Henry Louis Granju Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Speak to Power – Katie Allison Granju has a request
• Spittin’ Grits – RIP, Henry Louis Granju
• Spittin’ Grits – The parallel universe of drug addiction: A hall of mirrors in the NoFun House
• St. James Episcopal – The Weekend
• Stability for Our Time – Overlap
• Stability for Our Time – How to get away with murder in Knox County
• Standing in the Shadows – Today: love, sadness
• Standing in the Shadows – Anniversaries. Clear skies.
• Straight from the Bottle – Condolences to Katie
• Strangelittlemama – About a boy
• Strollerderby – Blogger’s son dies while recovering from overdose and assault
• The Sunsphere Is Not a Wigshop – A tragic loss for one of our neighbors
• Superpixel Subscripts – Not even qualified to comprehend the sorrow
• Sustainable Mothering – Goodbye Henry Granju
• Theatrical Milestones – Cautious Optimism
• Thinking Out Loud – Losing Henry
• Thinking Out Loud – Preconceived notions
• This Woman’s Work – Love to the Granju family
• This Woman’s Work – Kids will be kids
• This Woman’s Work – Celebrating Henry
• This Woman’s Work – Death of blogger’s son being probed
• This Woman’s Work – Writing as therapy
• This Woman’s Work – More from Katie
• The Ties That Bind – The things that go bump in the night just get scarier when you are a parent
• Tiny Cat Pants – Lightning Bugs
• Tiny Cat Pants – Things become strange in the case of Henry Granju
• Tiny Cat Pants – Things get hinkier in the Henry Granju case
• Turbulent Black Tea – Knoxville mother and parent begs other parents read her story
• Turbulent Black Tea – Teen drug use: breaking the comfort zone of stereotyping
• Unexpected Bliss – Broken hearts and shattered lives
• Unfit Mother – Compassion
• Unfit Mother – Personal
• Unfit Mother – A call to arms
• Unfit Mother – Henry Louis Granju
• urbanMamas – Scary news of lost child grips us all
• What If? – It can’t happen here
• Wijbeencorrysreizen – En dan staat de aarde even stil… (Dutch language site)
• Will Austin – Innocence Escapes Me
• Zwinglius Redivivus – This makes me so sad – and mad

A tip of the fedora to everyone who helped me (directly or indirectly) gather these links including Michael Silence (No Silence Here), @glynette, and Cathy McCaughan (Domestic Psychology).