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Being a P.A.R.A. means 1) Paying Attention, 2) Responding, and 3) Arranging; it’s the Mary at the Wedding of Cana approach to relationships.  The story about my daughter’s gymnastics team [...]

Differing parenting styles can still produce great kids.  I subscribe to the “Mary at the wedding of Cana” approach, as a beautifully feminine and engaged method of problem-solving and parenting [...]

K4J (Kids for Jesus), the virtue building program, runs through our veins in the Weber home— ever since our oldest was three.  Last year, the Catholic school our kids attend were the first in our [...]

My decade older friends warned me that track was the worst parental spectator sport of the bunch.  You sit in the stands for eight-plus hours in sometimes extreme elements (first you’re cold, [...]

My calloused response to the bombing in Boston runs like cold tea through my veins.  While my heart goes out for  the city and those killed and injured and their families, inside I’m screaming, [...]

I just listened to Business Coach Trainer Gary Henson reference the words of  former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld categorized how we see the world in terms of 1) what we [...]

In my last blog we explored  John Gottman’s first two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse towards marital failure: criticism and contempt.  We’ll dissect the last two—defensiveness and [...]

To understand  John Gottman’s research  on why marriage succeed, you must familiarize yourself with the outcome on his research on the signs a couple will likely divorce.  Observing the  Four [...]

This week I ride down the wave of our Wichita State University Shockers climbing the NCAA brackets all the way to the Final Four. Their only loss was by four points to the Louisville Cardinals, [...]

It was obvious Dave Ramsey has been delivering “financial peace” to individuals and couples for decades. Within 20 minutes of his first or second video he pulled the bow of his arrow and hit the [...]