Minister Of Mocha

So here we are with a fancy new number at the end of all our dates. All of the pretty Christmas decorations are coming down like autumn leaves. The temperature keeps dropping. And everyone keeps acting like the entire world is different and new. As if NOW, because of an arbitrary date on the calendar,…

This time of year is often associated with ribbons and bows. There’s gifts under trees and lights on them. People even appear at work festooned with garland, tinsel, and other festive decorations. Then there’s the flip side – the snot and tears. I’m not just referring to the bratty kids (and adults) who don’t get…

This time of year has a lot of people thinking on a grand scale. We put up outrageous Christmas displays. We make decadent goodies. We create lavish lists of gifts to get and give. Christmas can be hectic. I am not excluding myself from this group of over-doers. I fall into the same traps. The…

So this week is a week of excitement in my family. I’ll be headed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to take my youngest girl for an interview at Wake Forest University. She is hoping to enroll in a Physician’s Assistant program this fall and we have been planning for an interview at another school in February.…

Boy oh boy, the shopping season has definitely hit us. Just this weekend I was at a hockey game and they had a FANTASTIC deal on all of their sweaters (that’s a jersey for you football and baseball fans). Now here it is “Cyber Monday” and my inbox is crammed with offers on goods from…

It’s that time of year when everyone turns their eyes toward thankfulness. Why not? I mean, if we only have to do it this one time, or maybe a couple of times for this week in November, that’s not so hard. We can just fake it ’til we make it, then go back to complaining…

As I sat in the midst of my writer’s block I made the MOST AMAZING discovery – my computer gives me the names for the various emoji that I can use! Now before we get too far along on this rabbit trail, let me tell you how to make this happen. So on my Mac…

Sorry all you older guys out there, this has nothing to do with Dudley Moore or Bo Derek. Today I’m thinking about Step 10 – “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” This last week it was brought to my attention that I had made a careless remark that…

For some folks Sunday Nov 1 was the best day of the year: set those clocks back and get an extra hour of sleep! I’ll admit, I am much happier about falling back than springing forward. Yet for all the trouble it is to reset the clocks, my body can’t agree with what the clocks…

Halloween is rapidly approaching. The talk in the office today is the two of us who will be in on Friday trying to decide what theme to adhere to. It’s fun to be someone else for the day. We could have all kinds of debates about the “rightness” and “wrongness” of Halloween, but for now…