Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Most everyone want to see themselves as good at working, thinking, and being lovable. But, let’s face it.

Here’s a warning all the way from the Big Lake region in Reagan County (West) TX from publisher Randy Mankin who ran into any number of frustrations while shopping for a new vehicle. My solution to the problem is simple.

Covid perils are still holding forth. But just not so bad now as perhaps a week or two ago. And will it reload and again assert itself as the big news story of our time and be the killer it has been. I hope not. This Covid has terrorized the world long enough. Well, long enough for me. One doctor amazed at the denial among the anti-vaxxers reports that many of these deniers who have already been smacked down by this dreaded virus insist to the death (theirs) that they don’t have Covid. Such is the strength of the organizers of resistance to this happening. It’s very sad. But the denial is as real as the virus itself.

When I was a teenager someone recommended I read The Disciplined Life, by Dr. Richard Shelly Taylor. I picked up the book and eye-balled the Table of Contents: Chapter 1, Discipline, the Key to Power; Chapter 2, Discipline, the Mark of Maturity. My eyes perused the page until they caught on Chapter 6: How to Become a Disciplined Person. “That’s it! That’s what I need!” I thought and turned quickly to page 81, skipping all that boring preliminary stuff. There I read these guilt producing words: “Some of you will spot the title of this chapter while scanning the Contents and, recognizing that becoming a disciplined person is the goal, will suppose that to read only this chapter will be sufficient. Such an attempt may be symptomatic of your need for discipline.”

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Religion. Being good enough for God to accept us.

I always enjoy hearing from my friend Flo Shirley Howard. Many of us ‘ole-timers’ remember her parents, Dave and Artie Shirley well.

It’s sometimes hard to realize it in the moments they occur, but we are living tumultuous times. How do you reach back in America’s long history and try to harmonize our times with the rigorous and dangerous times in America’s past? Pearl Harbor perhaps? Only a few of us are still living who can remember that dreadful December day in 1941. It’s now long past. But I certainly remember Pearl Harbor.

“ARMY MOVING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY” Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Can’t you just picture it in your head? Colonel Worthington Worm called his tactical team together in a planning meeting one balmy evening in Oklahoma. “Attention, Majors.

Now that I am an 86-year-old person I am reminded anew almost every day about how forgetful old people are. But as I look back on my somewhat lackluster life I have to remind myself that my old age isn’t wholly responsible for my absentmindedness. I had a little bit of this even as a child. I remember overhearing my grandpa remark and sharing his concern with my mother about how forgetful I was, and this was when I was 6. Just last week I had to ask a young guy what his name is. A boy I knew quite well. I have often tried to cover this memory deficiency with saying things like, “oh he has a beard now.” But this guy didn’t. Sorry Dillon. So, I’ll just blame it on old age again, for now. And that works pretty well.

Three items of interest that I learned this week…. It was 100 years ago that our high school building was completed.