Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com Life can be a lot like Gomer Pyles’ favorite saying - “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” When you are coasting along, never expecting the unusual, it happens.

.Churches are like children. They come in different shapes and sizes, personalities and styles. No two are exactly alike.

Noccalula Falls in Gadsden, Alabama is a scenic 90-foot-tall point of scenic beauty. It’s also considered a very romantic spot. A place where a young man might take his best girl on a date.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com At the tender age of fifteen, Andy Bowman answered God’s call to make ministering to people his number one goal for the rest of his life. Ministry is his first love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.