CoffeeTime
CoffeeTime: “Adult siblings good and bad”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com If the adult version of you originated in a home that consisted of one child, that shaped you. You very likely grew up having no real concept of ‘sharing-because-you-have-to.’ Two in one bedroom, and having to learn to accept your different preferences? Probably inconceivable. And God forbid ever sharing one bed…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Is Poverty Better for you than Wealth?”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com I can vividly imagine the reactions of most who just read that title. “Are you nuts, Renie B?! Of course, being rich would be better for me than having to drive this old rattletrap of a car, that breaks down every time a wind any stronger than a baby’s breath…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “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…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Our Automatic Hands-Free World”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Many things like our car washes, ATMs, and grocery stores now boast that they have contactless accessibility. “NO TOUCHING, KEEP TO YOUR YOURSELF SO YOU WON’T RISK BEING CONTAMINATED OR INVOLVED.” And that concept works for keeping yourself germ-free in this scary disease-ridden world. But not so effective in rearing…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “Is Being Right – Every Time – Worth It?”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com You can be absolutely right, have all your logical little ducks lined up perfectly in a row, with all your detailed facts ready at your fingertips to zap your opponent to smithereens… and be dead right. Because insisting on always being right can be a killer. Sure, anybody with a spine…
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “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: “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…
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…
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