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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Old Dud”
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…
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Column: That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Mid-Winter Break”
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…
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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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