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CoffeeTime: “Employers and spouses do not like lazy”

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     Nothing wrong with relaxing.  With the right timing and amount. Being lazy? Nothing wrong with it – in moderation. After a fifteen-hour workday, certainly anyone would want a chance to just do nothing for a while. But when you decide that your thirty minutes of computer work warrants the next…

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CoffeeTime: “BRINGING IT ON YOURSELF”

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     The very thing that you dread and fear can keep you keep thinking about it. A lot, in fact. And that constant thinking can give way to obsessive anxiety. And then the obsessive anxiety and fear begin to take control of your days…and causing sleepless nights. Gradually, the lack of…

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CoffeeTime: “Help me to forget what you can’t remember”

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     That would definitely be wonderful, wouldn’t it? To have total amnesia regarding the awful things you have said or done in your past. To not remember the hurt you have caused, and the shame you have brought on yourself. If everyone had that rare ability to be totally honest…

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CoffeeTime: “Already Unlocked Prison”

  Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com The angry and resentful young man sat sullenly on the edge of his narrow cot in the cell.  He had no idea how long he had been sitting there, body motionless but with his brain racing in high gear. Ben’s pulse rate and stress level had shot through the roof when…

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CoffeeTime: “Sleepless and not in Seattle”

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Way too often finding yourself lying awake instead of getting your beauty sleep? As many know firsthand, that is an extremely common problem for a lot of people. I won’t bother boring you with the national statistics of this plague, you won’t be interested or impressed. Because the only insomnia that truly…

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CoffeeTime: “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…

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CoffeeTime: “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…

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