4/4/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Notes from New York” Chapter 89 By Bruce Williams This week I’m just going to turn over my notes of the observations I made during our recent five days in New York City.  I’ll let you thread them together and find a through-line for yourselves.  Frankly, the constant barrage…

“That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Whatta Ya Like?” Chapter 88 By Bruce Williams I was looking at the front of the Weekend Plus section of Friday’s Seattle Times and it featured lamb sliders on the cover.  “I hate lamb,” I declared to my betrothed, sitting across the living room as she pecked on her phone. …

“That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Disinterested, Disinterested, Disinterested” Chapter 87 By Bruce Williams I started writing a column this week about March Madness—partly because I was watching it and partly because I feel guilty sometimes about almost never writing about sports—even though my writing appears on a sports website.  I watched Kentucky go down to…

“That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Best Picture Nominees” Chapter 86 By Bruce Williams Every year over the past 15 or so I’ve watched all the Best Picture nominees for the Academy Awards with a sense of duty—a nod to what amounts to American Culture in its most obvious form—cinema.  This has included such movies as…

2/28/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Greatest Heartache” Chapter 85 By Bruce Williams I was driving with my son when he poignantly and misty-eyedly told me that a particular song reminds him of our dog that was struck and killed by a car, myself discovering her with her intestines oozing out onto the pavement.  The…

2/21/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “On Taxes” Chapter 84 By Bruce Williams I went to H & R Block on Thursday.  I was only there for about an hour before I was informed that I owed the government the equivalent of a new patio deck or a European vacation.  I guess that’s what happens…

2/14/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Math Problems” Chapter 83 By Bruce Williams As I was helping my daughter with her algebra for the fourth consecutive night (and seven out of ten) I scribbled the usual y=mx + b formula in the upper left of my scratch paper, again labeling which letter represented the slope…

2/7/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “The Art Form” Chapter 82 By Bruce Williams I was recently talking to a customer I’ve known for years—one of those guys where the lines are somewhat blurred between friendship and business, where a bawdy joke or a political slant might just inadvertently slip out and take a lap…

1/24/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “Untrustworthy Indicators” Chapter 81 By Bruce Williams As a public service, and as a matter of furthering a better understanding of my own sex, I’m providing some red flags for those of you still out there in the dating scene.  A guideline for trustworthiness, if you will.  An insight…

1/17/2022 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” “The Mixed Tape” Chapter 80 By Bruce Williams As I was lying in bed last night scrolling through Apple Music making a playlist, my sleeping wife rolled in the other direction as Family Guy droned bluely in the background, I thought back to making mixed tapes in my youth…you…