Minister Of Mocha

In the 2003-04 season of the English Premiere League #Arsenal became the first team to go for an entire season without suffering a defeat. To date, they are the only such team to accomplish this feat. This season #Liverpool has been knocking on that #Invincible door. They are on their way to setting a new…

As I write this, we are sitting on the trading deadline for the NHL. It’s the last day of the season that teams are allowed to make player trades. If a team is fighting for the top spots, it can be an exciting time. In the past decade my beloved Kings have made trades that…

This morning I am writing from a less familiar location than my neighborhood Starbucks. Currently I am sitting at Gate 57 in LAX on my way to Hawaii. It’s great to get a little vacation every now and then, and Hawaii is certainly a fabulous place to visit. The bummer is that I have been…

There are always a lot of numbers floating around in life. At their base, they are simply numbers, but we like to assign important through random metrics to things. Today four number on my radar are 49, 50, 3, and 5. Allow me to elaborate… Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday in America. Millions of people…

Yesterday we lost #Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash. The news was shocking and sad. Although I had never met him, although I had never actually watched him play in person, although my only real knowledge of him was through a video screen, I still felt impacted by his death. Many people around the world…

Listen, this is the Minister Of Mocha, so you just know that every day begins with coffee. I take mine black, but some folks put a splash of milk in theirs. Today I had a mishap at Starbucks and wound up dumping my coffee on my lap and the floor. Good thing it was hot!…

Sometimes we need to shed some tears. I’m the kind of guy that cries at almost anything. Take me to a movie, and there’s a good chance I’ll get choked up. My kids make fun of me because the movie Miracle made me cry. In case you don’t know, it’s a movie about hockey. So I…

Sometimes I wake up with a song or a thought in my head. Today, it’s a thought that keeps rattling through my mind. Let me step back for a moment. Starting at about 10 o’clock last night, I began having a spasm in my left ear drum. It was a maddening fluttering noise and feeling…

It’s Christmas time again. As I write, we are sitting on a rainy Christmas Eve Eve (the day before the day before Christmas for those of you keeping score at home). I’m wishing everyone a “Joseph Christmas” (because Mary has been getting top billing for a couple of millennia)! I’m thinking about tradition and such…

Wow, I’ve been a bit lazy of late. Sometimes I get in to a rut and just start moving through life on auto-pilot. That kind of thing happens all the time, and it happened to your MoM. As I put my head down to power through the holiday season I just got caught up in…