Body Having a working bicycle in 1945 was very important to me and lots of my 10-year-old friends in Stonewall. But our WWII enemies, the Japs and the Germans had seen to it that bicycles, cars and such were fairly unavailable in the USA. Especially Stonewall.

Body Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Okay, surely she is not the only person who has had this happen. Got up this morning and it was just another day.

Body Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Happy? Maybe you are and maybe you’re not. But, one thing is certain, you have the right to try to be happy.

Body Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com The four-year-old little girl had a startlingly vivid imagination. She loved to live in a makebelieve world of her own, and expected everyone else who happened to be around to follow along.

Body A lot of you might have thought I was too young to fight in WWII. The same could have been said for the Byrd boys, Roy and Troy. But with the advent of the big war by 1942 we were involved.

Body I had a good visit with 1949 HHS graduate Bill Watkins this past week. He is the son of the late Wes and Mamie Watkins, two of our good friends. His brother Clark was also a special friend and Clark and Queenie’s daughter Nannette was so much fun to be around.

Body I have read thousands of books in my lifetime, but one of my favorites is a little volume by Penelope Stokes entitled Thanks Dad! Lessons from the Lake on Living and Loving.

Body Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com You’ve heard it…the one about the little girl who was wakened by the lightning and thunder that lit up her bedroom and made the walls shake. Trembling with fear, she shrieked for her Daddy who came running.

Body True story. Probably countless times thru the span of history.

Body Andy was only a green twenty-year-old when he was called to his very first pastorate out in the Panhandle of Oklahoma. Located in a rural isolated community, this tiny church was accustomed to getting “newbies” as its pastor.