All the Things That Matter Blog

First, because it wasn’t working. Let’s be honest, if hearing more of my voice was what actually produced results in my children, things would have changed a LONG time ago. But nothing was changing. I was griping about the same things, over and over. And not big things. Not even “don’t bite your brother”...

WHY is a very powerful question. It pushes us deeper. It forces us to mine for answers to real questions, uncomfortable questions. But WHY is not a fix-all. It can be (and often is) stripped of its power in a couple of important ways. First, WHY is short-circuited when we aren’t truthful. We can...

To be honest, the idea of WHY popped into my head. So that has to be my first and most honest answer. Second, WHY is a question that can focus my writing without locking me in right away. I am in the process of discovering my specific voice, what message I might share with...

I’m going to try it again. The Write 31 Days Challenge. Every day for the month of October, I’ll write a post. And this year, I’m going to write about WHY. Every day, I’ll ask a simple WHY question and try to answer it. And who knows where we’ll all end up. This will...