For over twenty years, I’ve kept a standing appointment with the sunrise. When the Texas Gulf Coast weather is kind enough to offer a breeze, you’ll find me on the back porch with a steaming mug and a quiet mind.
CoffeeMuses is the result of those two decades of morning rituals. It is a collection of reflections on family, the daily rhythms of life in Alvin, and the simple beauty found in the world right outside my door. This is where the “mountain dream” finds its home in the coastal sun—one cup and one story at a time.

Our Latest Muses
The Real State of the Union
https://www.youtube.com/live/g_PnMMXlKXY?si=gPz8AULRoU8OgvYF
The state of the union…
I am sitting here with my last cup of coffee. The kids have caught the bus. The grandbaby has been dropped of at daycare. Breakfast has been cooked and eaten. And now I find myself…
A supreme roadmap in how to sidestep the constitution…
One of the things I heard mentioned after the Supreme Court disallowed Trump’s tariff excuse was how Kavanaugh provided a “roadmap” of alternative legal pathways. I forget who I was listening to at the time…
Vampire Hunters in Age of Trump
Yesterday after breakfast I was sitting and doing what one does of a morning with a podcast playing on the YouTube in the background… I was listening… But just barely registering what I heard before…

