3/6/2023 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Old Dud” Chapter 109 By Bruce Williams Doug came into my life over 30 years ago.  My Mom and Dad divorced and a few years later he started appearing on my Mom’s arm, good-naturedly offering up his home-spun wisdoms and malapropisms.  Over the years our relationship morphed from him…

3/6/2023 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Mid-Winter Break” Chapter 108 By Bruce Williams My wife and I have a game we like to play…when she thinks she’s catching me not listening to her she’ll ask me pointedly, “Did you hear me?”  After years of marriage I’ve trained myself to be able to recall the last…

2/6/2023 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Don’t be a Putz” Chapter 107 By Bruce Williams         Oxford English Dictionary  putz /pəts/ noun 1. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN a stupid or worthless person. “I’m not some two-bit putz who doesn’t know the difference between Ouzo and Dom Perignon” verb INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN engage in inconsequential or…

1/23/2023 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Male Pattern Embarrassment” Chapter 106 By Bruce Williams There are things worse than being bald—take wearing a toupee, for example.  My high school basketball coach wore a toupee.  It was one of those horrible, obvious ones that didn’t match his skull ring and moved in a different direction than…