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“Durn Thang Won’t Cooperate!”

by | May 13, 2026 | Communication, Personal Growth, Relationships | 0 Comments

The office was in its usual Monday morning subdued chaos, nothing new about the muffled exclamations, one-on-one conversations, and general hubbub. But still, there was a decidedly different element in the air.  The reason? The new chief-of-staff was beginning his...
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The Orb of Me

by | May 6, 2026 | Inspiration, Personal Growth, Relationships | 0 Comments

You have natural abilities and inclinations.  You love doing certain things. That's normal and good.  But what you love in life was never intended to be all that is important in your world.  Family, friends, co-workers, church family, strangers, and even supervisors,...
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Ignore It and It’ll Go Away

by | April 29, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Personal Growth | 0 Comments

If we are talking about your teeth, yep, that’s true. Just totally ignore them, and you have a pretty quick way to rid yourself of a tiresome repetitive responsibility. “She don’t care about us, and always wishin’ that we weren’t so needy all the time? Oh, yeah, we’re...
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Don’t Just Blindly Raise Your Kids

by | April 22, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Wisdom | 0 Comments

We humans have personality traits, that is readily apparent. And because we all have our own individual and highly weird traits, each of us also have singularly different desires. Desires for things in our life that are driven by our God-given quirks. The athlete,...
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Parents, Don’t Just Yell at Them

by | March 25, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Relationships | 0 Comments

Have you ever noticed that those rigid rules you insist your kids obey rarely bring about long-term enthusiastic obedience? “Mom told us to not do that. Yay!!!” Instead, rebellion later on is usually the result. When your back is turned. When your kid is turned loose...
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Just Walk Away From Cranky

by | March 18, 2026 | Communication, Marriage, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Your spouse feeling extremely ill and hurting, with no rapid relief anywhere in sight? Don't expect him to act differently than exactly what he is feeling. Physical illness shows itself very plainly in our behavior – take a quick look at a hurting and fussy little...
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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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