Minister Of Mocha

I took my best buddy from childhood to see one of his favorite bands last night. It was a general admission show and we got there early so we could score a good place. As it turns out, we were dead center, right on the barricade. Not bad for a couple of 54 year old…

I’ve been a pretty much life long hater of mornings. I’m a night owl, for sure. I love to stay up late and then lounge in bed until it’s time to get up. 1 or 2 in the morning seems like a reasonable bed time, then somewhere around 8 feels just about right to this…

I was scheduled to record a phone- in interview for my podcast this morning. That meant I had to get up early (for me). 6:20 the alarm went off and I got out of bed to get ready. The morning went very smoothly. I even had time to make a cup of tea before the…

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…