My best friend, the woman of my dreams and the mother of my child was gone. Several of my coworkers, most of whom had never met Liz, decorated our home with 1000 paper cranes to bring us luck. The baby was born healthy although 7 weeks premature. This inspired him to establish,Each year, on the weekend closest to Liz Logelin's birthday, the foundation holds a.Matt Logelin donates a portion of his book sales - 7%, his late wife's lucky number - to the foundation.Matt Logelin has worked extensively with people who have lost a partner.

"In many ways, it's a love letter to Madeline and to Liz," he said of the blog in 2009, which still receives 15,000 hits a day.The memoir was edited by Amanda Englander of Grand Central Publishing, and published by GCP in April 2011, reaching #24 on the New York Times Best Seller List and #11 on the eBook list.Following its publication, Logelin was asked to appear as the keynote speaker for the Gaithersburg Book Festival in Maryland,A screen adaptation of the memoir was optioned by.Logelin's second book will be a picture book for children entitled Be Glad Your Dad, written with Sara Jensen and illustrated by Jared Chapman.In 2009, a group of early blog readers planned a 5K Walk/Run in honor of Logelin's late wife, who was a runner. Without the love of my life, I was now facing a lifetime as a single father to the daughter we were so excited to raise together.In the midst of my most hopeless moment, I put my faith in the people around me. The majority were women, many were religious and didn’t subscribe to the same political beliefs I did, and we most certainly didn’t share the same taste in music and movies.

It was out of the kindness of their hearts that these strangers reached out to us.

Not once did we receive something that wasn’t sent with the best of intentions. The next day, as Liz stood up from her bed to go see our daughter for the first time, she collapsed in my arms. Our daughter Madeline came into the world seven weeks earlier than any of us expected via an emergency cesarean section, and in spite of our concerns about potential complications, Maddy was doing quite well.

EIN# 26-3994826 DLN# 17053110001049 The LLF provides resources with no endorsement implied. He also spoke to the National Conference on Widowhood in 2009,As Logelin lost his wife so shortly after childbirth, he is also frequently cited in news stories regarding the rising national,"A New Baby, a Wife's Death, and a Dad on His Own","Matt, Liz, and Madeline: Life and Death, all in a 27-Hour Period","A Single Dad Finds Support From Strangers","Matt Logelin Talks About Losing His Wife After Childbirth","Matt Logelin Speaks at National Conference on Widowhood","New York Times Best Seller List - May 1, 2011","Matt Logelin Headlines Gaithersburg Book Festival","Matt Logelin Reads From Two Kisses for Maddy","Love, Loss, and Suddenly, Single Parenthood","Rights Report: Week of December 2, 2013","Liz Logelin Foundation Helps 36 Families","Matt Logelin's Workshop - Revisiting Places That Matter","Matt Logelin to Appear on Healing the Grieving Heart","Caesarean Sections a Major Factor in Pregnancy Related Deaths","After Death from Childbirth, Family Wounds Still Healing",https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Logelin&oldid=951010335,College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University alumni,Articles with dead external links from August 2017,Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers,Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

They were demonstrating genuine empathy for a man and his daughter who were going through the process of dealing with an undeniably tragic situation; one they could see their own families in.Inspired by their kindness and knowing I would never be able to pay each of them back for the impact they’d made in my life, I started a non-profit foundation in honor of liz to help families who’d been through a similarly tragic event.

He added: "The proud parents will continue to …

And as the cliché goes, our house was overflowing with food for months after Liz died.But more important than money, flowers, cranes and food, these people gave me hope we could survive, and quite possibly even thrive in our new reality. Matt Logelin was born to Sara and Tom Logelin and raised in,He and Elizabeth 'Liz' Goodman met at an area gas station when both were high school seniors. What happened next no one would be able to predict.

After a little over 12 years together, my wife Liz gave birth to our first child on March 24, 2008. As news of his wife's death spread, Logelin found himself and his blog thrust into the national spotlight.