Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center

Season of gratitude

By Ken / April 14, 2016 /

My wife plans to buy some really good thank-you cards today. It’s been an uplifting week, actually two in a row, and we anticipate another to come at the month’s end. This is a season of gratitude. From people like you to Denise and myself. Then back at you as we recharge. Reverberating wherever hearts…

Confronting an epidemic

By Ken / May 21, 2015 / Comments Off

The numbers of those lost to opiate addiction are staggering. Tony LaGreca’s son Matthew is one. Seeking to educate and help prevent other families from going through the same hell, LaGreca will speak June 1 at Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center in Kingston, a nonprofit bereavement center that my wife and I founded. His…

Lifting each other up

By Ken / April 29, 2015 / Comments Off

Somewhere up there, our son is surely hooting at the marvel taking place in our lives. One of Mike’s closest and lasting friends is a special needs educator in a nearby town. At times effusive, loquacious, and highly-driven, Travis works with a group of students and young adults who are on the autism spectrum. As…

Hope and willingness

By Ken / March 26, 2015 /

“I had a little willingness, and I ran with it … it keeps me grateful for what I have today, that I can help these people.” — Aaron Fitzgerald A doctor who specializes in treating student athletes for concussions warns parents to scrutinize prescriptions for dangerous pain medications written by other physicians and practitioners. The…

Facing the onset of grief’s winter

By Ken / November 18, 2014 / Comments Off

A couple whose son died earlier this year recently asked my wife and I how we coped with losing ours. How did we handle those first holidays? What did we do for our other children? How do we hold on to him, and to each other? Their grief is so raw, their upheaval and torment…