CoffeeTime
CoffeeTime: “What About Suicide?”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Let me give my personal baseline right here at the beginning, and then jump headlong from that starting point. God is the giver of life. He has a plan for every life He creates. And He says it is a good plan. Although, God says life is worth living, it…
Read MoreCoffeetime: “You’re Gonna Respect Me, Ya’ Hear?!”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Most people with a beating heart want to be loved. Oh yes, I am certain that psychiatrists would be quick to point out there is a certain tiny percentage of humans who feel no love and have no need to be loved. But overwhelmingly, most of us crave the feeling…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Divorce and dealing with your ex”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Years ago, right after I began CoffeeTime Column, a friend suggested I write an article addressing ‘Dealing with your ex after the divorce.’ Now, I don’t know much, but I do know that a writer is foolish to attempt to write about an unfamiliar subject. And as I have never…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Old Man Pain is Determined to Win”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com 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 next happy-go-lucky soiree yet? “Oh yeah, give that…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Just put it on my tab”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Two elderly sisters, one widowed and the other never married, were living together. They had decided the year before that because the oldest owned her house, the younger should leave a rented apartment and move into her sister’s second bedroom. After the initial “Move over, I’m needing more drawer and closet…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Green Bean Cans and Eternity”
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When you draw your last halting shallow breath on this earth, from that point on, you are winging it on your own, with no one to run interference for …
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Basketball Referees and God”
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While watching our teen-aged son play four years of high school basketball games years ago, we both noticed an absolute truth;
Our son could …
Read MoreCoffeeTime: The Recipient of the Flying Shoe
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You are a caregiver. That very much over-stressed, over-worked and under-appreciated person who along with probably many others, holds the …
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Hobbled Milk Cows and Tethered Horses”
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Recently sidelined, I know how a hobbled old milk cow looks at life, or what a horse tethered to the fence feels. Imprisoned, caged, confined. …
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Headlights That Bend”
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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 …
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