All the Things That Matter Blog

Let’s start with an obvious fact: You are bombarded by messages all the time. This blog is a message. The text you just got was a message. Your neighbor’s crazed rant about car seats is a message. Every book, magazine article, video clip, song, television episode, political soundbite, sermon, telephone conversation, and email is...

Most of the people that I hang out with these days are moms of young children. I probably need to work harder at connecting with people in other life stages, but that’s a topic for another post.  I used to spend a good bit of time with college freshmen. I taught composition and grammar...

It started at breakfast. After consuming two bowls of cereal (and working on a bowl of yogurt), Alex announces randomly that he “will throw up again.” Yes, dear boy. It will most likely happen again. “No, I will throw up soon,” he says. Well, I say, I doubt soon is an accurate assessment. “No,”...

I went to Australia on a six-week missions trip the summer after my freshman year of college. It was an amazing time. And it was almost 16 years ago (yikes!). But I was thinking about it the other day, so here’s a snapshot of the that amazing trip:  We often visited animal parks. At...

So it was Easter weekend, so it automatically qualifies as “good” in my book. After all, we celebrate the fact that the God of the universe came and died and rose again so that we could be called “sons of God.” Yep…pretty darn awesome.  Still, my MIL took my kids overnight on Friday night,...