Minister Of Mocha

Let me start by stating that I live in a desert. Not a figurative desert, but a real, tumbleweeds and cactus kind of desert. It gets dry and it gets H-O-T! So when I talk about roasting, I feel like I have a bit of implied authority. This weekend I had two roasting opportunities. I…

I went to put on a shirt the other day. Well, I guess I do that every day, but the day I’m thinking of was Saturday. We were headed down to my aunt’s house for the annual family BBQ and I wanted to find the perfect shirt. I needed something that served multiple purposes: it…

How often do we find ourselves “just hanging out”? I know when I was younger I’d tell my folks that I was going to go hang out with my friends. I still do it…”Hey Honey, what do you want to do?” “Oh, just hang out.” It’s easy. It’s relaxing. It’s inexpensive. I love spending time…

Hi everybody, Today I am in Day 2 of my 9 Day Bachelorhood. My darling wife has taken a trip out to Tennessee to help her parents prepare to move. I’m not really wild about being all on my own, but even in my boredom and loneliness, I didn’t have nearly the problems that she…

Sometimes I find myself sailing along and then there’s no wind. It’s nice when you feel the spray of the ocean and feel the sails pulling you through the waves, but sitting in a dead calm is not so much fun. Back in the days of sailing they had an area of the Atlantic known…

Let me start by saying that I just L-O-V-E  fireworks! I love the noise, I love the flashing light, I love the colors, I love everything about fireworks… Perhaps that’s not quite accurate: I’m not really that fond of the duds. I mean come on man! I paid good money, so do your thing! Hold…

They say that “they will know we are Christians by our love…”  I’m even old enough to remember the old hippie days song that sang that in some peculiar mode. I hear people crying out that our nation was founded on Godly principles by Godly men and it’s all being torn apart by the ever-present…

I am headed out on an adventure today. Most people know it as “The White Road Hike”. Along with my son in law, youngest daughter, and oldest grandson, we will trek across some lava roads, through the jungle, through some aqueducts, and a few tunnels as well. It’s going to be amazing.  My grandson is…

Hello ev-er-y-body! (I feel so Elmo). This morning finds me sitting on my daughter’s lanai with a cup of coffee and my three grandsons watching the sunrise over Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Life could be worse, right?!? If you’ve never visited Hawaii it is quite different from the desert of Ridgecrest. I…