It is often a just over four hour road to visit my son and his family. Sometimes longer, occasionally, joyously, shorter. Traffic, construction, accidents, weather all conspire to slow me down, leaving me a bit weary and frustrated as I try to speed along my route....
Hi everyone, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about this month. For me, making it through June, the month of the anniversary of my son’s death, is hard enough. And honestly, April and May are not much easier. I feel is if I hear a countdown in my body and it just...
Grief and Gratitude I have spoken to parents about their kids since my first job right out of college where I worked as a counselor in a drug treatment program with teens and their parents. This was the early 70’s and I was only a few years older than many of...
It is Spring and with it comes color, and sunshine, gardens and allergies, and for many of us,memories of the times spent with our children: delight over their first steps, Little League games, track meets, soccer tournaments, first trips to the beach, plans for the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I had just finished writing my monthly column for the COPE April Newsletter when I turned the TV on and saw a commercial for 60 Minutes, a news show on CBS. Not a show I ever watch, the teaser for the next segment caught my...
I saw something on COPE’s Facebook page that said, “Grief is love that has no place to go.” I commented on it because it sounded so lovely. But I have been thinking about it and for me, it is more complicated than that. I don’t love my son any less today than ten...
