by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 26, 2025 | Inspiration, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Wisdom
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...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Feb 26, 2025 | Faith, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Wisdom
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...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Feb 5, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Inspiration, Wisdom
Sarah and Travis were trying to make it to his mom’s house that night before the storm hit. They had driven nonstop from Denver, except for filling the gas tank, buying fast food, and bathroom breaks. And those three events had to be perfectly timed to happen...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Jan 22, 2025 | Communication, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
Oh, shoot. Why am I writing about this question? Do I have a hidden ‘Go ahead and kill me now, and get it over with’ complex in me somewhere? Here we go over hill and dale anyway, and consequences bedamned. THE QUESTION: How many “I really am sorry” will it take to...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Jan 8, 2025 | Inspiration, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Do. Not. Give. Up. Giving up creates hopelessness. And hopelessness creates a huge black hole of depression and deadness in you. When you quit caring about anything in life, you stop living, even though your heart continues beating. Living in hopelessness means having...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Jan 1, 2025 | Inspiration, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Recently a man we know died in his nineties, after serving in the military until he retired and then had a long career as a police officer until retirement again. Jimmy covered his beat not in a patrol car or on foot, but on the back of a horse. At one point, he...