Minister Of Mocha

Each Saturday I follow a predictable pattern; I wake up and watch some soccer, I have some breakfast with my wife, then I leave to go to the prison for my CR Inside Group. I’m always really blessed to be there and it is always a pleasure to see the men who attend. This week…

I’ve spent the last week traveling about in the great north west corner of our nation. My daughter recently accepted a job in Utah and needed to retrieve her things from storage in Portland. Daddy to the rescue! I hopped on a plane last Tuesday and headed up to get said belongings and truck. One…

Recently I have been trying to collect funds to purchase a car for my prison ministry. The car I have is great, but it gets relatively bad gas mileage and with all of the volunteer driving I do for the prisons, I wanted to find something more economical. I did the whole gofundme.com campaign and…

The “holidays” have come and gone. My week between Christmas and New Year was predictably busy and culminated with a fantastically awesome New Year’s Eve Bash at CR. It was all very tremendous. And then I got sick. It may have been a let down after all of the commotion, or perhaps someone at the…

This past week I was blessed with free tickets to see my favorite hockey team. The blessing continued when I was able to get a ride to the game from a different friend. This was going to be a completely free game for me. Two of my favorite things in one swell foop: free and…

Yeah, it sounds wrong, but I’ve got evidence. Let me back track a bit an explain. My wife left me… OK, that’s not exactly right either; let me cut through the nonsense. My daughter wanted to sent my wife and I back to visit the family in Tennessee for Christmas. I wasn’t able to be…

In my 50-some years on this lovely planet I have had the privilege of participating in a wide array of activities. I like to think that I am a fairly well rounded individual, but this weekend I did something new – I performed at an open mic. It was a last minute kind of thing.…

I spend a lot of time with my grandsons. Three are in the same town and one is in Hawaii, but we see each other online. I love them all. As they get older, they do more and more different things that make me proud. For one, it might be making a clever joke, another…

We went to a play this weekend called Come From Away. It was a true story about the planes that were inbound for the US on the morning of the 9/11 attack. One of the wonderful themes that the play dealt with was the humanity shown by the Canadian hosts to their unexpected guests. At…

We made it through the Thanksgiving weekend and are now solidly in the Christmas Season it’s not even that fake, “way too early Walmart starts in July” kind of season, this is the real deal. We celebrated Thanksgiving with a bunch of our family, both the Forever kind and the genetic kind. There was more…