Minister Of Mocha

Wow! Last night I finally got the opportunity to see a recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Music Center in Los Angeles. I have been outside of this stunning building many times in the past and have been amazed at the architecture that features whimsical walls of curved sheets of stainless steel.…

Today we got up in the wee hours of the morning to drive to Orange County. My wife is having cataract surgery this morning, so we all piled into the “Jesus Chrysler” for a road trip.  Part of the surgery for the cataracts includes a Lasik procedure. I’ve always loved lasers, ever since seeing them…

Here I am again, still in Tennessee working on a house…last week it was digging ditches, this week we are hanging drywall on the walls. By now you probably can guess that it got me thinking about recovery! When we went into the house another crew had already put up the studs for the dividing…

So this weekend the family and I hopped on a plane and flew to Nashville TN. We are taking some time to visit our family here and helping them build a log home.  The first two days went pretty easy: hang out with the family; go to church; swim; watch football; we even went to…

Tofu is funny… It has a funny name; it has a funny texture; it has a funny flavor. Yes, tofu is funny. I was a vegetarian for about seven years in the nineties so I’ve had my fair share of tofu. I used to cook with it all the time, because being a vegetarian in…

I saw a great picture this weekend on FaceBook: there was a guy sitting near the pool wearing a swim cap. This was not a person that I would have expected to wear a swim cap, so it really amused me. The funny thing was that he had a pretty good beard going, so any…

My wife and I went with almost 200 people from our church and watched the new movie “War Room” this weekend, helping to make it the second highest grossing film of the weekend in America. It was most of what I expected it to be and a little bit more. You’ve probably seen the trailers…

Anybody who has known me for long has probably heard me utter my philosophy on life and fairness: fair is where you ride the rides! This week I’m putting that concept to the test but going to the regional fair in nearby Lancaster. So far, with the first of three trips done, I haven’t ridden…

Wow, if you live anywhere near me you know that it has gotten pretty hot lately. Yesterday we took a little trip to beat the heat. Along with my wife and a couple of friends (pretty much the Friday night band from Celebrate Recovery) I headed up the highway to play music at a friend’s…

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…