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Matt Logelin

“where are you from?”

Posted on: July 14, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

that’s a question i used to get asked a lot in my previous life, (you know, the one before my wife died)it was either preceded by,  or sometimes followed by, “what do you do?”  in my current life,  it matters less where i’m from & what i do… what’s more important,  especially to others like me (like us),  are questions like,  “what…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions

we’re doing something right.

Posted on: June 30, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

i got an email from an old friend the other day… at the end she  mentioned that she attached a  photo that she’d found while cleaning her house.it was a photo of liz and me in college. (i would attach it here, but it’s a pretty awful photo of me). i showed the photo to maddy.  “who’s that guy with mommy?” i was blown away.  yes, it’s true…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

one more, just like us.

Posted on: June 16, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

i met another one.  this time, holding a baby just  a few days past a month old.  she was pregnant when her husband died.she was left in the  place that  so many of us have found ourselves.  but i didn’t know that. not yet. … she smiled when we met, i smiled back,  talking to her baby.  then she told me. … i should be able  to hide my…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Community

after.

Posted on: June 9, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

it’s pure joy to see maddy with her auntie (liz’s sister),  the two of them,  as close as they would have been if… well, you know. …sometimes it’s the after that defines things, and after everything that’s happened, i’m happy that this she is such a big part of our after.

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

a song.

Posted on: June 2, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

someone reminded me  of this song last week.  i heard it once back in 2008  (the year my life took me in this direction) and couldn’t listen to it again.until last week.  now it’s a comfort.  i’m not a songwriter. but. if i could write a song,  i would write a song just like this:…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

in response to the old man in maryland.

Posted on: May 26, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

the early worries,  physical in nature,  disappeared long ago.  it’s impossible to know that she was born  7 weeks early,  but now it’s the emotional that i most worry about. honesty is the route i’ve chosen with her,  no stories,  just facts, which (i believe) will be  helpful later,  but it doesn’t make now very easy.  a few weeks ago…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed Suddenly

last monday, in a bookstore.

Posted on: May 19, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

on monday i came face-to-face with a teenage  madeline, and madeline at age 38.  two different people, different from the madeline i’m  raising right now. but the same.  they were still  living with what madeline will be living with the rest of her life.  … teenage madeline stood across the table from me,  holding a copy of the thing  i…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

normalcy

Posted on: May 12, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

week three of my trip around the country talking about that thing I worked on for madeline it’s been a week  since i’ve seen my baby.(well a week since i’ve hugged my baby. I saw some photos that her grandma broccoli sent my way of maddy covered (and i mean covered) in temporary tattoos, and some more that the other grandparents have sent my…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

another one.

Posted on: May 5, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

last week in austini met someonewho will die soon. i looked back at her, listening  as she shared  her life with me,  learning that she’d soon be leaving her husband in the position we all find ourselves in. cancer was there,  staring me in the  face but all  i could see was one of the strongest people i had ever met.  i cried with her…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly, Multiple Losses

what am i doing?

Posted on: April 28, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

you know what’s  not easy? talking about what  happened on march 25th, 2008 over and over and over and over again. (you people know this better than anyone).i lived it. i wrote about it and now i’m reading it out loud to  crowds of people i wouldn’t know  if it hadn’t happened to me, to us, a little more than three years ago. i thought it …

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Suddenly

not me.

Posted on: April 21, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

after all that’sbeen happeningthe last week, i’m pretty sickof talking about myself, so here’s lifeas viewed throughsomeone else’s eyes.(i’m pretty proud of her).

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed and New Love, Widowed Suddenly

for madeline.

Posted on: April 14, 2011 | Posted by: Matt Logelin

on saturday  some of the most important people in our lives will be with us as we celebrate maddy’s third birthday. again. (yeah, maddy’s birthday sort of runs from her actual birthdate of march 24th to her estimated due date of mid may). she and her friends will be beating  a piñata,  eating cupcakes, and throwing things  around our backyard…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Memories, Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly

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