Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Have you ever made an enemy? Someone who not only detests you, but actually would love to see the ground open up and swallow you. While they laugh and annihilate everything that used to be yours.

Today Is my birthday and while it will not be cause for the celebration that Preston Dunlap will have in a couple of weeks when he turns 16, it is still significant, to me, anyway.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Face it, our floors here in the Midwest get freezing cold in the wintertime. So cold that you really can’t just ignore them.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Years ago, songwriter Mac Davis penned the lyrics to a song about a tiny orphan girl who evidently longed to experience being loved. In the song, “WHOEVER FINDS THIS, I LOVE YOU” she writes a note containing those words, and it into the wind.

It’s the season. Live with it. This little ditty was handed to me years ago. Wish I had thought of it.

It’s not too early to start hinting for gifts for Santa to put under my tree. Al Wilburn is a young (at heart) guy who lives in Harrah and has been known to provide Santa-type gifts for a wide variety of folks in the past.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Retirement. You have now become one of the thousands in our country that is having to leave the work-force.

Thanksgiving is just TOO much for one column so here goes another called Thanksgiving II. Thanksgiving has always ranked high on my personal list of favorite holidays and I feel a certain pain of regret when I say it is not my FAVORITE holiday.

The Thanksgiving letter My mom always taught me it was polite to send a thank you note to someone after they did something especially nice. You know the drill.

“CONSTANTLY RELIVING PAIN AIN’T WORTH IT” Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Waking up that morning, Renie heard dripping outside the house. Opened the blinds of the bedroom window and saw a soggy lead-gray sky.