Minister Of Mocha

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…

I went to Home Depot this week. I know, that’s not a big deal, people go to Home Depot all the time. I was working on the floors at my daughter’s dental office and we started to run low on supplies so my son in law ordered more boxes of flooring. The problem was that…

Here I am, back in beautiful Hawaii once again. My daughter has hired me to help put in vinyl laminate flooring at her office. So yes, it’s a working vacation. I spent my whole day putting in part of the flooring. I didn’t even get finished with the main entry room that I had hoped…

I had the opportunity to stay in a fancy hotel this weekend. My friend and I went to watch a concert in Las Vegas. Normally I am a “there and back again” kind of guy, but he said he wanted to spend the night, so he got us a room in one of the hotels…