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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....
Andy Bowman
Jul 102 min read


CoffeeTime: “Harvey Parenting Does Work”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Quote; “I have been accused of being too hard on my sons. I totally disagree. Undisciplined...
Andy Bowman
Jul 32 min read


CoffeeTime: “Raising our kids as pigs”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Sick and tired of trying to teach little Johnny how to be potty trained, instead of leaving a...
Andy Bowman
Jun 262 min read


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...
Andy Bowman
Jun 192 min read


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...
Andy Bowman
Jun 52 min read


CoffeeTime: “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?!...
Andy Bowman
May 292 min read


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. ...
Andy Bowman
May 222 min read


CoffeeTime: "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...
Andy Bowman
May 82 min read


CoffeeTime: “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,...
Andy Bowman
May 12 min read


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...
Andy Bowman
Apr 242 min read


Coffeetime: "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...
Andy Bowman
Apr 172 min read


CoffeeTime: “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...
Andy Bowman
Apr 102 min read


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...
Andy Bowman
Apr 32 min read


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...
Andy Bowman
Mar 272 min read


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...
Andy Bowman
Mar 202 min read


CoffeeTime: "Green Bean Cans and Eternity"
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Where does a person go after death? We need to understand one thing from the beginning. When...
Andy Bowman
Mar 132 min read


CoffeeTime: “Basketball Referees and God"
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com While watching our teen-aged son play four years of high school basketball games years ago,...
Andy Bowman
Mar 62 min read


CoffeeTime: The Recipient of the Flying Shoe
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com You are a caregiver. That very much over-stressed, over-worked and under-appreciated person...
Andy Bowman
Feb 202 min read


CoffeeTime: “Hobbled Milk Cows and Tethered Horses”
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Recently sidelined, I know how a hobbled old milk cow looks at life, or what a horse tethered...
Andy Bowman
Feb 132 min read


CoffeeTime: "Headlights that Bend"
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Sarah and Travis were trying to make it to his mom’s house that night before the storm hit....
Andy Bowman
Feb 62 min read
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