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Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     The longer I live, talking and being with people, the more I realize that there is no one-way-only-lifestyle that is completely normal. For instance, my present lifestyle seems absolutely normal to me. But President Trump probably feels the same way about his lifestyle. So does the grandmother who is…

When most people see excavation, they picture machines and a hole that seems to get bigger each time they drive by. On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, though, this work also lets us see the ground that holds up our roads and buildings. Looking closer at what excavation teaches us about earth science can make a…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     Lost terribly at the family game of cards? Tear up that score card and put it out of your mind. A silly little board game is not worth thinking about and ruining your day. But you know that. Or you should. Your fiancé lets you know that after thinking…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com       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…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     The office was in its usual Monday morning subdued chaos, nothing new about the muffled exclamations, one-on-one conversations, and general hubbub. But still, there was a decidedly different element in the air.  The reason? The new chief-of-staff was beginning his first day in the office, and everyone was feeling slightly…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com       You have natural abilities and inclinations.  You love doing certain things. That’s normal and good.  But what you love in life was never intended to be all that is important in your world. Family, friends, co-workers, church family, strangers, and even supervisors, they are all supposed to be…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com         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,…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com       We humans have personality traits, that is readily apparent. And because we all have our own individual and highly weird traits, each of us also have singularly different desires. Desires for things in our life that are driven by our God-given quirks. The athlete, bookworm, the flour-on-my-hands addicted,…

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     You want your way. And that is normal. But getting others to want to do what you are asking? Sometimes that’s just not very easy. Forcing them usually doesn’t make you a winner. In their eyes or in your own. A normal person will usually admit they don’t enjoy having…