Legacy
Last weekend was the 8th Annual Ben Kopp Memorial Ride. It takes place in my home state of Minnesota and is an event I anticipate with excitement every year. On Friday night there is a dinner and silent auction and...Read More
#TBT-Who He Is Today
Country singer Kenny Chesney released a song in 2005 entitled, “Who you’d be today.” It’s about a life gone too soon, a loved one who dies young. The lyrics ask what would have become of that person: “Would you see...Read More
Sweets and Innocence
My son Ben claimed he didn’t like candy or sweets. As a football player during his high school years he stuck to a regular workout regiment and was a healthy eater, for the most part. I would chuckle when he...Read More
#TBT-I Just Want To Be By You!
I was able to be a stay-at-home mom until my son Ben was four years old. The first job I took when I went back to work was cleaning houses. I loved the physical activity, but when I got home, I...Read More
Boots
Around Thanksgiving time a couple years ago, a friend came up with an idea to express gratitude to someone we love. She was feeling grateful to her husband for the hard work he had instilled over the years to provide...Read More
You’ll Figure It Out
I was lying in my hotel bed talking to my mother before dozing off the evening the doctors told me they believed my son was brain dead. I don’t remember everything we talked about, I only remember the overwhelming feeling...Read More
#TBT – Honour the Past. Welcome the Future.
In e.e. Cummings poem “Dive for Dreams” he says, “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards. Honour the past, but welcome the future.” This is a paraphrasing, but it’s a meaningful...Read More
Connecting the Dots
In his 2005 Commencement address to Stanford University, Steve Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You...Read More
#TBT – The Origin of Benergy
There is a word I often say that cannot be found in the dictionary. If you knew Ben in life or after his Heavenly transition, you’d know it too. It’s Benergy. Ben meets Energy. The spirit of Ben colliding with energy and...Read More