Minister Of Mocha

I just spent my weekend meeting my future son-in-law. It was a great weekend and if you would have asked me to predict this ten years ago, I simply would not have done it. Fifteen years ago I was “living the dream”. I had a great job and a wonderful blended family with my second…

I apologize for being a day late. If it helps at all, I’m also at least a dollar short! After a busy Easter week Pastor gave us the day off yesterday so I went hiking with the grandsons. That still didn’t keep me from thinking though… Have you ever had a peach? I just LOVE…

Every Monday it’s the same thing…”What do I write about?” As I look back on the week I find that I am a pretty busy person. So glancing back on the week I try to decide what adventure or experience is worthy of sharing with you, dear reader. Today it’s Kings hockey. This weekend my…

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…