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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Don’t be a Putz”
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…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Male Pattern Embarrassment”
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…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “For Christmas”
12/19/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “For Christmas” Chapter 105 By Bruce Williams It’s that time of year again, so I thought I’d break my short hiatus and offer up a few Christmas thoughts. We’re only about a week out, and there’s three things I’d like to propose that you try to accomplish this week…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Daughters”
11/7/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Daughters” Chapter 104 By Bruce Williams Only a 13-year old girl can wrap up so much admonishment, frustration, angst and impatience into one monotone, monosyllabic word delivered each morning as my cue to grab my cup of coffee, drop the newspaper, get up out of my recliner and go…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Vermin”
10/10/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Vermin” Chapter 103 By Bruce Williams “I killed 25-30 stink bugs in Lou’s room. She won’t sleep in there…” I get my wife’s text while I’m leaving work and immediately call Orkin, who I’ve got on speed dial now. They set up a comprehensive program of caulking and indoor…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Dollar Tree”
9/26/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Dollar Tree” Chapter 102 By Bruce Williams My daughter Lou asked me to take her to the dollar store because “…they have stuff that I can afford to buy there,” and since I didn’t have anything else to write about—I haven’t submitted anything for three weeks now—and I needed…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Interstate 90”
9/5/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Interstate 90” Chapter 101 By Bruce Williams As you drive east over I-90, you get struck by the endless beauty of this state—from ocean to mountains to prairies to desert—all in a four and ½ hour drive. I was doing 85 most of the way to Spokane…that felt…
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Column: **100th Edition! “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Philly”
8/21/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Philly” Chapter 100 By Bruce Williams For this, my one hundredth essay, I considered writing a thank you note to all the folks that have read, shared, commented, laughed, cried, mocked, found distasteful or politely pretended to have skimmed. To thank Paul and Eli Sports for giving me a…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “The Gift of Sight”
8/8/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “The Gift of Sight” Chapter 99 By Bruce Williams I’ve been losing my sight of late. It’s not permanent as it’s a fixable situation (cataracts in both eyes), but the current rate of degeneration was enough for me to bump up my annual eye appointment by three months to…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Black Lake”
7/25/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Black Lake” Chapter 98 By Bruce Williams It’s funny how you can become intrinsically linked to a body of water. The Pacific Ocean is like that for me in a way—I’ve been in its waters and on its beaches in Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii, but its vastness…
Author: Paul Beattie
