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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 …
When I became Board President in January, 2019, I felt getting to hear your thoughts, opinions, feelings, and needs was essential to help me and the Board make sure that COPE continues to be an important resource for grieving families. …
The call came in about 9:15 on Wednesday morning, September 12. It was from a former client but for the moment I couldn’t find a face to match the name. There was a bad connection on her cell phone and …
Welcome to September! While still summer, the languor and laughter of vacation days are waning. I always felt that those first chilly evenings was back to work time, even though once I graduated college, I no longer had summers off! …
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 …