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…

This morning I drove my daughter to work. On the way home I stopped by the Sack n Save to get some coffee and bagels. I love the Mega Berry bagels that they sell there. Today the price was: $6.99 for 6 bagels or $6 for 12. The catch was that you had to have…

Today is Indigenous People’s Day in America. At least it used to be, the guy with the temper may have changed it back to Columbus Day again. That’s what it was when I was a kid. Then we started to see some issues and changed the name. Some folks get worked up over various things.…

I spent about 2 1/2 hours today, 150 minutes, working on my car. I literally took out and put back in 4 fasteners. Screws. That’s it. It took me that long!! Now before you leap to a logical conclusion, I actually do know what I’m doing. It’s just that the parts that needed replacing were…