Co-President’s Messages

We are nearing the end of a difficult summer season. This year, many of us lived through record breaking heat, dangerous storms and floods, and...

“However you survived is brilliant.” I always liked this sentiment. We’re all survivors of one thing or another. As a father...

May brings Mother’s Day so I googled “who started Mother’s Day” and learned that a woman, Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, started...

I am writing this while listening to the morning news, not on Long Island, but in Denver, Colorado, about thirty minutes south of Boulder. While...

Welcome to March! The vernal equinox is on the 20th, which marks the beginning of spring and by the 21st, the days get longer. Ok, maybe by a few...

It is hard for me to avoid reading or watching the news. Yes, I know that it’s not always the best thing for my sanity, and yet I can’t stop, or...

Happy New Year!  Doesn’t it seem odd to say that? Perhaps the best we can say about 2021 is that is not 2020. With the rest of humanity, we,...

We have just had our first major family holiday since the pandemic slammed into our country and reshaped so much of our lives. Our lives are...

Adam Rabinovitch, our executive director, has joined with a national grief advocacy group called Evermore. Adam has had some conversations with...

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...