The Gift of Ben

If our souls are pure energy, then, Benjamin, you are my sun. Kissing the hilltops of my face each morning, you rise. After the darkest nights, where I miss you so profoundly, I awaken to feel the promise of your touch, again, and again. Magnetically pulling to your ascent and, thereby, allowing me to rise […]

“The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that we possess in the non physical worlds down into a more limited capacity for the duration of our mortal lives.” Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife […]

First, I want to acknowledge the steps that our state officials and national Congressmen are taking to enhance NHTSA’s public awareness campaign locally, due to the multiple incidents that have occurred in Connecticut this summer. On July 11th, Senators Blumenthal and Murphy spoke out in a letter to NHTSA asking for the agency to focus more […]

Love and Longing….it takes your breath away….in the quiet, the void left in Ben’s absence is palpable….I’ve internally debated whether to write about the grief of tragically losing a child. Do I just stick to public awareness and facts? History? Solutions? The generic, clean parts – stay away from the messy, complicated reality? Yesterday, though, […]

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” – Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for MeaningThere are many theories of grief. You may be most familiar with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. […]

Please see my story and thoughts in the following news media outlets below. These are tentative plans, schedules – if anything changes I will let you know: – CBS National Morning Show (around 7:40 am)- The Weather Channel AMHQ with Sam Champion (begins airing in segments around 9:10 am)- CNN – digital story by Kelly Wallace “Grieving […]

On July 29th, my husband and I made a unified decision to share Ben’s story with others and to speak out to raise awareness about the grave dangers of child heatstroke in cars and bolster the intellectual discussion around ways these risks can be mitigated in the future, whether through public awareness campaigns, legislation, funding […]