Episode 90: Meaning Making

When Andy first died, I didn’t want anything good to come from his death. I selfishly wanted everything about it to be 100% horrible. I didn’t want there to be a silver lining. Perhaps that is why it annoyed me so much when people tried to cheer me up in...

Episode 88: Easton’s Mom

Easton’s Mom, Alexandria, says that her young son, Easton saved her life not once, but twice. Theirs is a beautiful love story not unlike many mother-son love stories, but this one taught the mother even more than it did the son. It taught her what true...

Episode 87: Bryson’s Mom

‘For some people, it takes 70 years for them to make an impact on the world; for Bryson, it took just 7.’ – Amanda, Bryson’s Mom Over the past 20 months, I have heard about many amazing children through their powerful stories. None, however,...

Episode 86: Carly’s Mom

A butterfly lights beside us like a sun beam, and for one brief moment its glory and beauty belongs to our world. But then it flies on again, and although we wish it could have stayed, we are thankful to have seen it all. This is the inscription written on...

Episode 85: Eesha’s Mom

Pregnancy with your first baby should be a fun, exciting time. For Farhana, unfortunately, this fun time lasted for only the first 22 weeks. It was at that ultrasound when Farhana’s life was forever changed. She and her husband discovered that their firstborn...