Minister Of Mocha

This year my Steelers have been kind of all over the place. We were in the cat bird’s seat for the playoffs, then faltered against one of the worst teams in the league. Last night, in a winner goes on and loser goes home final game of the season we missed a great chance to…

As you may (or may not) know, I’ve been trying to get into shape to run a half marathon in September. I started off well, then the holidays came. I was traveling, I was eating, I was lazy…now here we are three weeks after I started training, and I’ve barely done anything. As it turns…

Well, I missed all of last week with all of my blogs. The blog service wanted me to update my password so they sent a link to the email on file. The problem with that was that the email on file was from way back when I started the blog and not only is that…

Today is the day that I started training for my first ever half marathon. I got encouraged (read:coerced into it) by my son in law, who is a runner. I bought fancy running shoes and even signed up for a fancy running app. The race is in Sept of 2026, so I have about nine…

Sometimes life gets mundane. I go through doing the same things every day and not much seems to change. That’s life. It’s also partially intentional. My recovery wants a certain amount of routine in order to work fluidly. Knowing what “comes next” is a good thing for me. It allows me to respond instead of…

I had dinner with my mother last night. Over the past few years it’s become a bit of a tradition to go out to eat with her on Sundays. (Just as an aside, the three suggested words above my digital keyboard when I wanted to type “tradition” were: struggle, mess, and habit!🤣) From the time…

Yesterday I heard a quote that I will sort of share with you now. I say sort of, because I will not get the words exactly correct, but let me give you the gist of it: Worry is me trying to control things that are beyond my control; Worship is me give control to God.…

I made that one up. As I was driving to the prison the other day I was listening to a podcast (Annie F. Downs interviewing Ben Rector, if you must know) and I misheard them say something that sounded like “doomlessly”. I just loved the idea of that being a thing. It can be very…

Last night was my penultimate night in Hawaii. Our main objective in being here was seeing family, but among the top hopes in the second tier objectives was the volcano. On our first night here it went ape with twin geysers of lava. However, the event was short lived, happening after we went to sleep…

I’ve been basking in the glow of the jungle for a week now. Mrs MoM celebrated her birthday last week and our older grandson celebrates his tomorrow. Well, hopefully he can celebrate, he’s been sick again all weekend and is currently staying home from school. When you look at him he looks like a pretty…