Minister Of Mocha

Weekends mean a lot of things for a lot of people. For me, between September and May it means that I usually have an Arsenal match to watch. (As I write that I can hear my wife telling me that not everyone cares about English Football…) It’s kind of how I set my alarm on…

Well, this past week your MoM went to a heavy metal show. Not just in the building, but all “up in the mix” with the mosh pit and everything. Yup, me. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a show that was quite as wild as this. Back in the day, I was all…

We just entered April. My 7 year old grand son is trying to figure out the whole April Fool thing. It’s a lot of fun. My favorite April Fool joke happened 27 years ago. I fooled my wife into saying “I do” on April 1, 1995. Life has been all over the place since that…

This weekend we were blessed to go to a concert. Being a Christian show, they had the standard request to sponsor needy children. The guy who did the speaking was the former singer of Audio Adrenaline, Mark Stuart . His band broke up several years ago because he developed a debilitating condition in his vocal…

Friday is my day for Celebrate Recovery. There’s a fair amount of set up and clean up to do before and after our meetings. In order to make our night a bit shorter I took an opportunity to do some clean up while the ladies were still having their open share group. I put away…

I used to love roller coasters. I could ride all day, do the loops, and have no problems. I was never really great with spinning, but loops and coasters were my jam. Then I got older. Now, one spin, one loop, one corkscrew and I’m out of commission for the rest of the day. It’s…

Last night my wife and I took a trip to LA to watch Hamilton. Yes, it was wonderful. Like so many people, I had watched the filmed version that aired on Disney+, so I had some familiarity with the show, but I was not one of the superfans that we saw last night. As we…

I caution people against expectations. I usually say that expectations are premeditated resentments. We tend to write the final chapter of the story before we have all of the plot elements. We also tend to forget about that favorite author ploy – the surprise twist at the end. I fell into that trap this past…

About 3 or 4 years ago I got a text from a friend. It was a person I had worked with at Starbucks years before, but I hadn’t seen for a few years. She simply asked me if I knew on what day of the week my birthday would fall in the year 2022. I…

I think I’ve probably used this title before, but I’m not positive. Anyhow, it’s my blog, so my rules, right?!? I spent a large part of my Saturday traveling back home from our 2nd “home” at our daughter’s house in Hawaii. I’m a guy who enjoys soda. Like, really enjoys soda. We’re talking about 4…