by Renie Bowman | Sep 9, 2026 | Cautionary Tale, Family, Marriage
The funeral director was scheduled to bury the body of a man who had been married to five former wives, and had a current fiancée when he died. A fiancée that the ex-wives did not know existed. In this town, when a person passed away and had no specific pastor they...
by Renie Bowman | Sep 2, 2026 | Family, Inspiration, Parenting
So. You are a parent of a five-foot five-inch, sixteen-year-old son. A son whose dream is to be a professional basketball player. Who lives and breathes the game of basketball. He eats his breakfast with his ball tucked under one arm. And sleeps with it nestled on the...
by Renie Bowman | Aug 27, 2026 | Cautionary Tale, Family, Inspiration
Would you knowingly hesitate to find shelter until you saw a huge tornado was only thirty feet from you? Would you wait until your three-year-old was bitten in the face by a rattlesnake, to finally take it away from him? How about your house mortgage? Would you...
by Renie Bowman | Aug 12, 2026 | Cautionary Tale, Family, Relationships
Pappa and his two small great grandsons were having fun playing in the park on a gorgeous afternoon. Kicking around a soccer ball, they soon decided to start a game. Well, a loosely-termed version of the game of soccer. The kind of game that has very few boundaries or...
by Renie Bowman | May 20, 2026 | Family, Marriage, Relationships
If you are in one, it’s a scary thing. With a lot of anger, defeatism, anxiety, and damaged pride as shipmates. But, maybe you still feel that you would rather patch the holes that are rapidly taking on water, rather than just bailing out. Maybe you feel the kids...
by Renie Bowman | Apr 29, 2026 | Family, Parenting, Personal Growth
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...