Minister Of Mocha

I was trying to email someone this morning. I have never met them, but a mutual acquaintance gave me their information. I sat down and composed an introductory email, you know, just sort of setting the stage to let them know how I thought we might be able to do some work together in the…

Last week I went to a concert in LA. I was excited to see the band for the first time as was my childhood buddy. As we got closer to the arena we began to reminisce about all of the shows we had been to at the Forum in LA. Back in the day it…

Saturday Mrs. Blogs and I played the waiting game. We had the time and location of our Saturday class in prison changed just a day and a half prior and we had no way of letting the fellas know. The result was that several of them stood in 40 degree weather outside the education building…

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.…