Actually, it can..
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-my-home/forum/topic/where-is-the-link-to-myhome-in-front-end/
Which is really great, since at this point I probably shouldn’t attempt to build my own widget. I was nervous enough simply editing the files to get the BP my home sidebar to show up. But it wasn’t difficut and I was thrilled that it worked.
I feel so fortunate to have stumbled apon this info, imath’s plug-in is one of a kind, absolutely wonderful for my purposes.
I’m having an issue with the bookmarks widget, seems I can’t delete a particular link.
Still my favorite plug in of all time, building a subscription site with various access levels and probably couldn’t do it nearly as well without the exclusive nature of the My Home page.
I was so pleased with the new notepad widget, but now it appears to be broken, it worked for a couple days, now it won’t respond to mouse clicks. Must be some other plug in I installed since.