Minister Of Mocha

Wow, last week was really rough. I started feeling drained on Thursday and by Friday morning I was completely wiped out. Not sure if it was the flu or just a close facsimile, but whatever it was had me down for the count! I dragged myself through the day and even forced an abbreviated lesson…

“What did you do this weekend Paul?” you ask? I went to NASCAR in Las Vegas, that’s what I did! For those of you who are unfamiliar, NASCAR is where they drive cars really fast and turn left a lot. Boring? Sometimes, but there is still a lot of excitement in seeing those cars fly…

So I just completed my final act of Birthday Week 2016. My “virtual” daughter and son-in-law Ari and Ross took me to Magic Mountain. (Before you freak out, there’s no biology there, she just seems like a replica of me, but 20+ years younger) I LOVE roller coasters and I hadn’t been there in over…

If you know me at all, you are probably aware of how much I ADORE birthdays. Today is my day! I’ve been looking forward to it all year. My co-workers and family threw me a surprise karaoke party at church yesterday afternoon. This morning I had coffee with a couple of good pals. It’s been…

There it is…I struggle. I know that isn’t what you might be looking for in a blog on recovery, but it is the hard truth. I often find myself at night looking back on the day that just was and thinking “Is that all you’ve done?” As I had my morning coffee with a friend…

It’s the day after the Super Bowl. The dust has settled and the trophies have been distributed in the midst of the confetti at mid-field. There was a lot of pomp and bragging before the teams took the field on a sunny Sunday afternoon, then for a little more than three hours grown men played…

I’m sitting at my desk trying to decide what to put in the blog today and it all of a sudden occurs to me that it is no longer January! That means that we are officially in Birthday Month for this dear blogger. We hear it all the time – “Time flies!” In general I…

This week was a big football weekend here in the States as the two finalists for the Super Bowl were decided. A large portion of my circle of friends are fans of the Denver Broncos, so I was cheering by association with them. But if you really know me, you know that hockey is my…

It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here in America. So far I’ve spent my “holiday” out trying to work on a fence for a guy who wasn’t there to open his doors to where we had stored all of the supplies; had a cup of coffee with a friend; and debated the sanity of people…

Often times things happen that just don’t fit my paradigm of reality. This weekend’s Steeler victory is an example. For that matter, this whole football weekend demonstrates that. Last Friday I sat in my office and listened to a brand new David Bowie album, and this morning I wake up to find that he has…