Minister Of Mocha

I showed up at the office and found all of the tables full. Not just “my” table, all of the tables were occupied. What gives?!? And it wasn’t any of the typical folks that sometimes keep my seat warm for me, these were a whole cadre of new people sitting where I wanted to be.…

There are certain patterns that I get into. Mondays are MoM Blog days; Tuesdays are Mess it Up podcast days; and of course, Fridays are for Celebrate Recovery. It’s not always the same on these days, but there are things that happen frequently enough that they become part of the pattern or routine. Among the…

Mrs. MoM and I have been spending our evenings binge watching old TV shows. We plowed through 11 seasons of Cheers between Thanksgiving and Christmas , then we dove into Modern Family as we dove into 2025. Having never seen even one episode of Modern Family, I wasn’t sure what to expect. As it turns…

I was just now staring at my screen pondering what to write to you, Dear Reader. Recently I’ve been reading through all of the previous blogs from the past ten years for a project (look for that it February!), so I am more aware of the things that I’ve written about. I am also cognizant…

My kids have lived on the Big Island for the better part of a decade now. This weekend they did something new. A typical weekend for them looks a lot like this: stay home, watch tv, play video games. Even though they live in a jungle paradise, they don’t really get out much. But this…

I’ve been up for a little bit and all of the other blogs that I read have been doing end of the year things. Looking back at 2024, looking forward to 2025…you know what I’m talking about. I just didn’t feel like doing that post today, so I decided to talk about how hot it…

This week we had a new addition to our family…well, sort of. Mrs. MoM got herself a new knee. She underwent a couple of hours of surgery and then they had her up a walking within two hours. It’s amazing what they can do with modern medicine. She is working hard to get back to…

Yesterday was a l-o-n-g day for my mother and my youngest daughter’s family. They had just finished a Disney cruise together and were set to fly back to the West Coast from Orlando. They were going to different destinations, but everyone had a similar flight time. My girl got tickets with an early departure so…

On Thursday we had the local family over for Thanksgiving dinner. My daughter’s family joined my mother at our house. Being 90, and a bit “kooky”, we are never quite certain what my mother might talk about. She began by saying that she had lost a button from the cuff of her fancy jumpsuit. We…