I’ve been working on my waist line since I returned home from a recent visit to the beach. Let’s just say that the pictures were less than flattering and leave it at that. With some dedication and focus I have been able to shed a few pounds and and feeling better about myself. This weekend…

I’m at my daughter’s house helping with some home improvement projects. A few years back they bought an 80 year old house that needed lots of work. Back then we put in new floors and painted most of the house, but as things tend to go, once they moved in the projects got put on…

Today is the first of April, aka April Fool’s Day. When I was a kid I relished this day as an opportunity to pull pranks on friends and teachers. As a teacher I enjoyed playing along with the “well thought out” gags that my class pulled on me. There’s a line in a John Mellencamp…

No, not Elsa, or Ariel, or Anna, or whichever Disney princess sings that song. I’m thinking about something different here. As I sat down at Starbucks this morning I heard a song that I was not familiar with. It had sort of a “dance” vibe without being overtly techno. Of course, your MoM is on…

Yesterday I woke up to clear skies. To borrow a line from the Who, I could see for miles and miles. we are visiting the Kona coast of the Big Island and counting Haleakala across the Channel on Maui, I could see 5 volcanoes. No clouds on any of them and the only remaining volcano…

Last night I was in the bathroom minding my own business. As I finished up my “business” I noticed that I wasn’t alone in the bathroom. That can always be a bit of a startling discovery, but this particular visitor was a centipede. I did what any rational person would do: I announced (with some…

I went to a Missions Dinner at my local church this weekend. As a leader of prison ministry, they help support us so we were invited to attend. There were 8 different ministries represented that night and each of us were seated at tables among the crowd so that we could tell our ministry story.…

Normally when your MoM uses the number 22 during this week in February it is to remind you that my birthday is on the 22nd. However, today there’s a bit of a different reason. It was on February 19, back in 2002 that I was released from incarceration. Yup, 22 years ago. When I walked…

One of the ads in yesterday’s Super Bowl came from “He Gets Us”. It shows a lot of not so pretty people and puts some commentary over it. Some people think it’s great and others feel that it isn’t. The thing is that a lot of those people look a lot like the folks I…