Letters from Home

September 8, 2017 Joey Cope 4

Letter-writing used to be big. Trips to the mailbox held great promise. Most days there was enough mail to preoccupy and distract for a little while. But letters were the best. I spent a good number of years in my youth at summer camps — Camp Blue Haven as a [read more]

Overwhelmed: The Loss of Life to Numbness

September 7, 2017 Joey Cope 2

For months . . . years . . . the one word that keeps popping up in my personal journal is “overwhelmed.” Photo Credit: Julia Freeman-Woolpert (stock.xchng) The everyday barrage of life events used to be enough to tire us and send us to our beds, eager to escape the rushing torrents. [read more]