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Old Man Pain is Determined to Win

by | March 26, 2025 | Inspiration, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Wisdom | 0 Comments

You are aging, every second you are alive, that is an inescapable fact. And right along with that joyous and party-mood-making pronouncement is another fact. Multiple years of aging most always brings on a certain amount of physical pain. Ready to invite me to your...
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Just Put it on my Tab

by | March 19, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Relationships, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Two elderly sisters, one widowed and the other never married, were living together. They had decided the year before that because the oldest owned her house, the younger should leave a rented apartment and move into her sister’s second bedroom. After the initial “Move...
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Green Bean Cans and Eternity

by | March 12, 2025 | Faith, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Where does a person go after death? We need to understand one thing from the beginning.  When you draw your last halting shallow breath on this earth, from that point on, you are winging it on your own, with no one to run interference for you.  Family ties mean...
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Basketball Referees and God

by | March 5, 2025 | Personal Growth, Wisdom | 0 Comments

While watching our teenaged son play four years of high school basketball games years ago, we both noticed an absolute truth; Our son could not seem to grasp that he wasn’t able to block every shot that was put up by the opposing team. He obviously believed that it...
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I Disagree with God Sometimes

by | February 26, 2025 | Faith, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Wisdom | 0 Comments

I realize that not everyone sees life as I do. Probably nobody sees life exactly as I do. We are like snowflakes, and science tells us that no two snowflakes are the same. So I accept the fact that what I write in this column probably doesn’t peel your banana...
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The Recipient of the Flying Shoe

by | February 19, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Communication, Family, Relationships | 0 Comments

You are a caregiver. That very much over-stressed, over-worked and under-appreciated person who along with probably many others, holds the anonymous title of WORLD’S MOST PATIENT PERSON. There are likely very few families among our population who have not experienced...
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CoffeeTime Articles

Read through the articles from Andy & Renie Bowman that have been syndicated weekly in newspapers across the country as the CoffeeTime column. These articles use humor, wit and wisdom to share timely insight into realtionships, personal growth, parenting and faith.

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