by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 31, 2022 | Cautionary Tale, Personal Growth, Wisdom
We all see them, at WalMart, the workplace, or looking in the mirror. Maybe with a sling on their arm, or favoring a strained back muscle, or limping through the door on their good leg. Bar fight? Strong disagreement with their spouse? Exercise workout gone south?...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 24, 2022 | Cautionary Tale, Parenting, Personal Growth, Wisdom
What has happened to “I gotta go to work” anyway? Seems so many so-called adults have just decided that holding a job is for the birds. You hear them whine, “Yeah, I have a job, but I don’t want to have to show up on the days I got something better to do. After all,...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 17, 2022 | Cautionary Tale, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Two young boys were growing up on their parents’ small farm. This meant that raising show-worthy pigs and calves for livestock shows was a normal thing in life to them. The youngest of the two was small in stature and big in heart. That year he had spent his...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 10, 2022 | Cautionary Tale, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Wisdom
The following is a man’s recipe for eventually learning to live all alone… Shoot, I really hate it when the wife’s feelin’ bad. It jest gets her down and seems to mess up her days. I’ve watched it all thru our marriage, so I know what I’m a’sayin’ to be true....
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 3, 2022 | Communication, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
We’ve all had to be around them. Usually, everyone has one or more in the family tree – hopefully a good way away from your own particular branch. But even if you are fortunate enough to not be situated in close proximity to Cousin Crabby – you probably still get the...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Feb 24, 2022 | Faith, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Needing play-around money, as all teenagers do, three industrious farm boys decided to create their own hay-hauling crew one summer. So they made a plan. One boy would drive as another loaded the hay, while the third teen would stack it onto their borrowed truck. Very...