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…

Back in November of 1968 the Beatles released what is widely known as the “White Album”. One of the tracks has a famous loop of John Lennon saying “number nine”. Nine years ago your MoM started hollering into the void of the internet. Feb 2, Groundhog Day, of 2015 I launched this blog as a…

Your MoM spent the weekend working on the Messed Up Ministries Building. The project on Saturday was taking down the false ceiling. That means lots of dust. Lots of dust… I knew it would be bad so I was prepared with my respirator. I told my volunteers to come prepared, but as so often happens,…