An introduction to my parenting philosophy.

When you see a tree I want you to remember a hero by the name of John Wittrig, your Popow. You may think you never met him, but the truth...

By Aila and Sumay Nobody likes to think about death. But it’s going to happen to everyone and we might as well know it’s going to happen...

by Aila Hello! Today I will be talking about Positive Psychology and we will talk about three things: what is the Hamburger Model and who...

Hello! Thank you for coming to read Positive Psychology 101! Positive psychology is the study of human happiness. In this post we share...

My wife and I met at church in Ames Iowa. We had seen each other before, but she didn't take interest in me until she saw me taking notes...

By a father of two girls that loves and hates social media... We created our own entrepreneurship summer camp for our daughters this...

Hello Friends and Family! I want to share an interesting insight Lihong Lu McPhail and I had last night about marriage. In short, when we...

Dr John Gottman is a leading expert in what makes marriages succeed and fail. After just five minutes in his "Love Lab" he has been able...

Here is the somewhat embarrassing backstory of WeGrowMe. Embarrassing, but probably not all that uncommon. Our story illustrates a key...

Lihong and I love learning from entrepreneurs and angel investors. They are as close as one can get to seeing the future before it...

This post is about the common values we seem to share with the vast majority of Americans. We don't belong to a political party. We don't...

Sumay published this article in February 2019. Four years ago I started meditating. When I had trouble sleeping I would sit up and focus...

By Sumay and Aila Dale Carnegie wrote a masterpiece with, "How to Win Friends and Influence People", but many skip over it because of the...

What was the happiest moment of your life? That’s how we kicked off tonight’s Sangha and it took us to some magical places. Sumay jumped...

Dear Future Grandkids, Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Momow. Like all fairies she was magical, but Momow was special...

By Sumay I took my title from an article my Dad showed me by Paul Graham. It's a good article. Not many nine years olds have probably...

When we wrote this we had no idea the word gender would become taboo...

This is a slightly revised letter we wrote to Sumay after she confided that she would have liked a "bigger house, like some of her...

Long drives across the country are great for reflection. We discussed many things but one topic stands out...Love. We started by playing,...