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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…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Notes from Ocean Shores”
7/5/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Notes from Ocean Shores” Chapter 97 By Bruce Williams On the road again this week—this time just a two-hour jaunt out to Washington’s grey coast…a little hamlet called Ocean Shores where they throw around the word “resort” rather liberally—including it in the names of rambler motels with gravel…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “On Being a Father”
6/13/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “On Being a Father” Chapter 96 By Bruce Williams I was thinking about what it means to be a father recently, it being Father’s Day and all, and a myriad of definitions began swirling in my head. Being a father means snipping the umbilical…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “A Modest Proposal”
6/6/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “A Modest Proposal” Chapter 95 By Bruce Williams I’ve been thinking about the variety of rites and passages that we bestow upon our kids as they age out of school, and the rather arbitrariness of some of the stages we’ve settled on to grant…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “On Twins”
5/23/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “On Twins” Chapter 94 By Bruce Williams I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have had a twin. Especially an identical one. I think eventually I would get tired of him—he’d be a know-it-all who took up too much of my personal space, and we’d both be…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Concerts”
5/16/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Concerts” Chapter 93 By Bruce Williams I got my Foo Fighters cancellation notification while we were on vacation, and I was pretty bummed out. I never got to see them and now who knows (after the overdose of their drummer) if they’ll ever tour again? I’ll see Iron Maiden…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Self Checkout”
5/9/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Self Checkout” Chapter 92 By Bruce Williams As the kids and I were buying Mother’s Day flowers and a chocolate torte Saturday at Haggen’s after a long day at work, I noticed there was only one line lit up to serve customers and there were eight queued shopping carts…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “The Big Exhale”
5/2/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “The Big Exhale” Chapter 91 By Bruce Williams Most civilized people cover their mouths when they cough—or yawn. Many sneeze into the crux of their elbow or bend over and face the ground away from others when they feel that familiar nostril tickle (did you know that a sneeze…
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Column: “That Got Me to Thinkin’…? “Notes from Las Vegas”
4/18/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Notes from Las Vegas” Chapter 90 By Bruce Williams The second in this year’s series of travelogues, Notes From Las Vegas pits your itinerant author against a desert backdrop and its cornucopia of colorful visitors. I hope to illustrate the uniqueness of each city I visit this year through…
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