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Back in the 1960s there was a famous marshmallow experiment performed with 5-6 year-old children at Stanford University. The experiment began by bringing each child into a private room, sitting them down in a chair, and placing a marshmallow on the table in front of them. Then the researcher made a deal with the child.…

Our Macek Maverick family phone calls continue, albeit twice a month instead of every week. Our format remains the same. Each of us takes a turn by composing a question and sending it out ahead of time and then discussing it on the night of the call. Even after three years of conversing on a…

Chastity has a broader meaning than being celibate in singleness and our commitment to a spouse in marriage. To be chaste means we have the ability to wait with patience for the fruition of an experience.   Waiting for what we hope for; true love, better health, or a healed relationship, creates a certain level of…

It is a little ironic that rejection is a human experience that excludes no one. We can all attest to what it feels like to be rejected, forgotten, ostracized or disliked by someone. Yet knowing that none of us are exempt from this universal and at the same time, personal experience, does not diminish the…