Douglas enjoying a day on the lake. In celebration for the life of Douglas Evans Madsen.

Douglas still extending his heart and hand outward More Alive in Heaven- A Story of Healing, Purpose, and Redemption  ***Douglas and I...

Hey there, I understand the tremendous courage it takes to reach out to another on this path that you never, ever imagined walking, yet...

Artist: Britnie Watson A woman in the audience of an event that Glennon Doyle’s podcast, We Can Do Hard Things was hosting   requested some parenting advice. Perhaps might there be something Glennon would do differently now given her lived experience? Abby, Glennon’s wife offered a warning reminding her that their children were in the audience. Laughter ensued as Glennon reassured her that they already knew  what she was going to share. Glennon went onto explain that she freq

Douglas is on the bottom row, second to the left. I don’t want an endpoint to my sorrow. The death of a child is not a heatwave or a snowstorm, nor an obstacle race to rush through and win, nor an acute or chronic illness to recover from. Thinking about my children is like air, like time. Thinking about them will only end when I reach the end of my life.  ~ Yiyun Li I will always recall my mom telling me that I would think of my son, Douglas, all the time. What changes and ca

Lisa, contemplating and communing with her best friend, her mother. The Cost of Loving Me By Lisa Tannert “If you die, I’ll drink again.” It was just a thought, and not even true, but I knew the power those words held. I sat beside my mother’s hospital bed. She was unrecognizable after a brutal year—she had endured heavy doses of chemo and an autologous bone marrow transplant meant to prevent her T-cell lymphoma from returning. She was cancer-free, but the chemo had irreparab