Co-President’s Messages

In a few days, it will be 8 years since I lost my older brother.  Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday and sometimes it feels like it...

I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to share with all of you this month. The more I thought about it, the less clear I was. My brother’s...

I like to do things with my hands. Admittedly, I’m not very good at it. I’m good at having ideas and envisioning things, but executing isn’t my...

Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us. That's a quote from the final scene of, perhaps, my all-time favorite TV...

Greetings – As I write to you from a faraway location where I snuck away from a work conference for a few hours to go catch some incredible live...

In the first year after my brother passed, I had a number of dreams in which he appeared and they always left me feeling helpless.  I talked...

The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote “no one you love is every truly lost”.   Since my daughter Samantha Rose passed...

Greetings COPE Community - I want to tell you a short story. Of spirit and inner peace. Once upon a time, there was an expansive and majestic...

On April 8, 2016, my brother and I went to Opening Day (Let’s Go Mets). We took a bunch of pictures and two days later, on April 10th, I posted...

I lost my older brother. I’m not sure those words will ever feel real to me but I know they are. During my sibling group the other night, I...