by Renie Bowman | Mar 5, 2025 | Personal Growth, Wisdom
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...
by 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 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 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 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...
by Renie Bowman | Dec 25, 2024 | Communication, Faith, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
To paraphrase a comedian from years ago, “D’ya know what makes me sick?” No? Well, I can gladly tell you. And there will be no referring to the cost of eating, or heating the house, or driving across the street nowadays. Although I certainly could. The topic eating my...
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