Minister Of Mocha

Today is my penultimate day in Hawaii. In my ideal world I had podcasts in the can ready to release each Tuesday. However, the interview I had scheduled for tomorrow’s release has been cancelled twice, so now I find my self in a bit of a quandary: record or relax? Of course I’d like to…

We took our grandson fishing at the beach this week. It’s sort of Island style, in the sense that we used a bamboo pole with fishing line and a hook. We were out for fun, not to eat! We made our way to some small tide pools and rocks on the coast. We didn’t see…

I promised some of you that today’s blog would probably deal with air travel. Well, tada! I am writing this from the seat of a plane mid-way across the Pacific to Hawaii. My daughter paid extra to get me a window seat because she knows that Papa loves to look out. When I got to…

I got new earbuds this week. On a recent trip I lost mine on the plane so I waited until Amazon Prime Day to get a replacement set. Today is the first day that I’m using them and I noticed that I only have music in my left ear. Not cool. It might be that…

Friday night we had a new voice at our CR meeting. We’ve been training up a man to help share the load on the leadership team. Over the past year he has been steadily stepping into more and more roles. Friday night was his turn to step up to the microphone (am I the only…

So last week I was chuffed about having that extra seat on my flight back east. I figured I should continue the story this week. It would seem that one of the things I used my extra space for was to temporarily put my ear buds down. Not the case, mind you, just the buds.…

Mrs. MoM and I are flying to DC today for a Prison Fellowship conference. Be the thrifty folks we are, we got no frills tickets on Southwest. Boarding Group 8. Steerage. We boarded the plane and found our seats then waited as the last stragglers made their way down the ramp to the plane. I…

I have a conference scheduled in the near future. When I booked my original tickets I made a mistake and had to cancel then re-book. My calendar still has both flights listed. When I went to check the flight time I got myself confused because I had two sets of conflicting information. I had to…

Sometimes things don’t go the way I want. Sometimes, even if they do go the way I want, they don’t go as fast as I want them to go. It’s almost like I’m not really in charge of the world or something! I’ve heard it said that recovery happens at the speed of commitment. That’s…