by Renie Bowman | Oct 15, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Communication, Wisdom
The difference between a whistleblower or a tattler is their mission- no matter what they publicly declare. Whistling is to trying prevent potential disaster from happening to innocent people. In other words, whistleblowing is attempting to do your part to make sure...
by Renie Bowman | Oct 8, 2025 | Communication, Marriage, Relationships
You know you stepped in it. Big time. Didn’t really mean to do it, but it happened. Now your spouse is hurt and angry. And they are not really waiting breathlessly to hear your apology – they’re way past that. Seeing you hanging by your bleeding ears from a dead tree...
by Renie Bowman | Oct 1, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Personal Growth
Nothing wrong with relaxing. With the right timing and amount. Being lazy? Nothing wrong with it – in moderation. After a fifteen-hour workday, certainly anyone would want a chance to just do nothing for a while. But when you decide that your thirty minutes of...
by Renie Bowman | Sep 24, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Inspiration, Wisdom
Most adults who have lived very long know that a strong storm – with its heavy clouds, pelting hail or blinding snow, driving winds, or flooding rain can bring on certain fear and anxiety. Not to mention downright physical and financial problems when actual...
by Renie Bowman | Sep 17, 2025 | Cautionary Tale
If we were all childhood siblings and behaving the way we fellow citizens are acting and reacting, Mom already would have taken away every last one of our toys and privileges, restricted our food to vegetables and water only for a couple of months, and wore out our...
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