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Dear COPE Families, It’s me, Sandy Wolkoff, COPE’s board president. You get a lot of emails from me and the staff. And yes, I know that most of you don’t open these emails but I hope this time is different. …
It will be September when you read this column, but it will be unlike any previous September in my lifetime. You are living those changes just as I am. So many of us are frustrated, and angry, with our desire …
I try to read less news, watch less news, and worry less about the news I do see. I am not succeeding but I have, however, noticed a slight uptick in articles that have words like “hope”, or “better news”, …
It is three months into this new covid-19 world. Is it still possible to be optimistic? A pandemic of biblical proportions? An economic crisis that harkens back to the Great Depression 90 years ago? A political crisis that leaves my …
I was thinking about how much I seem to be “taking” these last two months—nearby friends shop for me, neighbors walk with me, albeit masked and 6-8 feet away, my kids check up on me, my oldest friends call a …
It has been crazy I have been crazy My body has been making me nuts The news has landed in my belly and made me sick Worry has become the prison in which I am kept Panic is the salt …
Grief is grief. We all mourn our losses. How we mourn, however, is shaped by many factors. Religious and cultural practices shape our beliefs and rituals around loss, often giving mourners signposts when we feel so lost. Our own temperament …
I went to a 90th birthday party recently. This was for the patriarch of a family I have known for 50 years and the parents, the children, the grandchildren, the half dozen great- grandchildren, are all close to my heart. …
Happy New Year………or maybe not. Every new year for the first five or so years after my son was killed in an accident, I would go to the cemetery and wonder, “Really, you’re still gone!?!?!” I believed that I had …
There are a few things I have been thinking that I want to talk with you about. (You do see that I am hoping these columns are a conversation between COPE families and supporters and me.) Even though I don’t …