Minister Of Mocha

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…

It’s National Coffee Day today, so I am doing the only thing that a good MoM would do and having lots of coffee. There a plenty of options here with my daughter so I am working my way around town and sampling the brew. Some of it has been good; some not so much. That’s…

Last week your MoM went to see The Who on their “The Song is Over” North American Farewell Tour. I had never seen this particular band but wanted to. Once their bass player passed it felt a bit hollow, so I had demurred at previous opportunities. With both of the remaining guys being octogenarians I…

In one of my current Step Studies we have completed our Steps up to Step 8. Of course that means that we have done our Inventories. However, I had a person decide that they needed to add more to their inventory before they could keep progressing forward. This being their first time through the Steps,…

Today I had a work day for the ministry. We called it “Manual Labor Day”. We had a lot of tedious tasks to perform, so having about 8 people show up was great. We got a ton of stuff done that would have taken me a long time to accomplish on my own, so I…

Working in recovery and working in prisons I get to see a lot of people who want to have control. People want control over other people, situations, addictions, the list is huge and this barely scratches the surface. We want it so badly that we adopt the illusion that we actually have it. We try…

Yesterday I watched the season opening match for Arsenal with a friend. Before you ask, no, Mrs MoM, this is not another blog post about soccer! My friend is a fan of the team we were playing, so we decided to watch together. My friend also has a 13 month old son who was cruising…