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Bill Woolum
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Retired. Currently reading my way through Leah Sottile's
(@leahsottile.bsky.social booklist) -- the one she posted on her Substack (https://tinyurl.com/ynj42zeu) as a response to the NYT's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century
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Three Beautiful Things 12-23-2025: The Prolific Colleen Wheelahan, Alley Cats in NYC, The Solemnity of Christmas
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Three Beautiful Things 12-23-2025: The Prolific Colleen Wheelahan, Alley Cats in NYC, The Solemnity of Christmas
1. It's not enough, I guess, that Colleen Wheelahan hosts a six hour classical music program on SiriusXM from M-F. Out here in the west, tha...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-22-2025: License Plate Off to Virginia, Classical Holiday Music, Great Nuts and Bolts and Cookies tinyurl.com/2s3vnh8e #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-22-2025: License Plate Off to Virginia, Classical Holiday Music, Great Nuts and Bolts and Cookies
1. Going to the post office isn't that big of a deal usually but today was a little different. I mailed Debbie her license plates, license p...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-21-2025: One of the Sweet Spots in My Life, Simple Family Dinner, Lots of Good Yakkin'
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Three Beautiful Things 12-21-2025: One of the Sweet Spots in My Life, Simple Family Dinner, Lots of Good Yakkin'
1. If you've watched it already, please don't tell me anything about it. I want to see the next movie in the Knives Out  franchise, Wake Up...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-20-2025: Language is Music, Sparky on *The Tonight Show*, The License Plates Arrive
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Three Beautiful Things 12-20-2025: Language is Music, Sparky on *The Tonight Show*, The License Plates Arrive
1. My previous post about the English language was on my mind throughout the day today.  My thoughts were long, but I'll keep my summary of...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-19-2025: Always a Teacher? Not Me, Mozart and Stalin and Salem Cigarettes, Popcorn and Gibbs
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Three Beautiful Things 12-19-2025: Always a Teacher? Not Me, Mozart and Stalin and Salem Cigarettes, Popcorn and Gibbs
1. I was hired in the fall of 1977 to teach a college writing class at Whitworth and I taught my last such class in the spring of 2014. For ...
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December 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-18-2025: Let There Be Power, Taking Care of Business, Hail to the Wildcats! Plays in My Head
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Three Beautiful Things 12-18-2025: Let There Be Power, Taking Care of Business, Hail to the Wildcats! Plays in My Head
1. With the light coming on at my bedside and the restored power noises of things humming and chiming in the house at 4:06 a.m., I woke up a...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-17-2025: Whistling and Howling Wakes Me Up, Power Out Soup On, Power Restored
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Three Beautiful Things 12-17-2025: Whistling and Howling Wakes Me Up, Power Out Soup On, Power Restored
1. I don't claim that the times I'm going to mention in this post are precise, but they're in the ballpark and this is a blog not a court o...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-14-2025: "Jane Austen Musicale" in Celebration of Her Birthday, Mozart Arrests Me, Another Bacon Bean Soup tinyurl.com/3ew542uz #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-14-2025: "Jane Austen Musicale" in Celebration of Her Birthday, Mozart Arrests Me, Another Bacon Bean Soup
1. To pay tribute, a day early, to Jane Austen's 250th birthday, Sirius/XM's Symphony Hall channel presented a program entitled "Jane Austen...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-14-2025:Gibbs is Groomed, I Fixed Turkish Rice-a-Roni, We Enjoyed a Pork Roast Family Dinner
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Three Beautiful Things 12-14-2025:Gibbs is Groomed, I Fixed Turkish Rice-a-Roni, We Enjoyed a Pork Roast Family Dinner
1. The high waters and flooding up the North Fork of the CdA River kept Gibbs' groomer at home Friday when he had an appointment. Today, ho...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-13-2025: A Day of Great Joy and Delusion in 1981, Interview with Joan Micklin Silver, Back to 2025! tinyurl.com/yb5x7rdd #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-13-2025: A Day of Great Joy and Delusion in 1981, Interview with Joan Micklin Silver, Back to 2025!
1. The summer of 1981 was memorable. My wife landed a plum internship at The Oregonian  and lived with her brother's family in Portland. I ...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-11-2025: *Nebraska* and 1983 and 84, Burgers and Floods and Mortality at the Elks, Carol Kane and Her Mother on Film tinyurl.com/5yau7d9a #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-11-2025: *Nebraska* and 1983 and 84, Burgers and Floods and Mortality at the Elks, Carol Kane and Her Mother on Film
1. Back in January 1983 and again in 1984, I taught a course at Whitworth called The Family in American Drama. We studied plays and movies t...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-11-2025: Luxury, Brahms, The Rocket
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Three Beautiful Things 12-11-2025: Luxury, Brahms, The Rocket
1. My idea of luxury used to be to enjoy varieties of craft beer and to indulge from time to time in an anniversary ale or a bourbon aged al...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-10-2025: Just Over Nineteen Years and 7000 Posts, Ed Has Labs, Good Yakkin' and Lousy Luck Today tinyurl.com/mtsjntyw #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-09-2025: Watching Movies with Others, Copper Has Labs Drawn, Bacon Bean Soup
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Three Beautiful Things 12-09-2025: Watching Movies with Others, Copper Has Labs Drawn, Bacon Bean Soup
1. While I was waiting for the vet tech to take Copper back for a blood draw, in light of what I wrote yesterday about going to movies alon...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-07-2025: Watching Movies By Myself, I'll Return to *Nebraska* on Tuesday, Nuts and Bolts
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Three Beautiful Things 12-07-2025: Watching Movies By Myself, I'll Return to *Nebraska* on Tuesday, Nuts and Bolts
1. Yesterday I wrote about two ways that Josh Brolin watches movies that made me feel like we were brothers at the soul level.  I now reali...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-07-2025: Prospector Pizza in Pinehurst, Beethoven Brings a Movie Alive, My Soul Brother Josh Brolin tinyurl.com/47u3z6tk #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-07-2025: Prospector Pizza in Pinehurst, Beethoven Brings a Movie Alive, My Soul Brother Josh Brolin
1. Today it was my turn to host our weekly family dinner. I couldn't seem to muster up the energy to come up with a menu or to get the house...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-06-2025: Color Me Astonished, Being JJ Cale, Restocked tinyurl.com/484fe8s7 #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-06-2025: Color Me Astonished, Being JJ Cale, Restocked
1. The phrase "color me" seemed more common when I was much younger than it is now.  The phrase is a way of expressing some degree of amaze...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-05-2025: Figuring Out the Wallaston Name, Registration Arrives, The Lounge and Tomato Eggplant Pasta Sauce tinyurl.com/2pwksh85 #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-05-2025: Figuring Out the Wallaston Name, Registration Arrives, The Lounge and Tomato Eggplant Pasta Sauce
1. I knew a few things about Johnny (or John) Wallaston before I found out back in early October that he'd died. I knew he played basketball...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-04-2025: Shoveling Just in Case, Gibbs and Copper and My Lap, Pizza Soon tinyurl.com/edvvp4cx #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-04-2025: Shoveling Just in Case, Gibbs and Copper and My Lap, Pizza Soon
1. The wet snow on Christy's and our sidewalks didn't concern me. It was shallow and easy to walk on. But I shoveled anyway late this aftern...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-03-2025: This Month's Labs Look Good, Winning Wednesday with Ed, Catching Up on Sleep tinyurl.com/mu7ysvhn #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-03-2025: This Month's Labs Look Good, Winning Wednesday with Ed, Catching Up on Sleep
1. I woke up this morning to discover, happily, that we were between storms in North Idaho. I piled into the Camry and felt gratitude as I ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-02-2025: Shoveling Snow, Talking with Debbie, Tomaso Albinoni Takes Me Back to Mid-1990s Eugene tinyurl.com/33zb38up #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 12-02-2025: Shoveling Snow, Talking with Debbie, Tomaso Albinoni Takes Me Back to Mid-1990s Eugene
1. Boots on the ground! Well New Balance shoes on the snow! Enough snow fell overnight that I sprang into action and cleared the sidewalks ...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 12-01-2025: Michael Made Me Happy, Boots on the Ground, Popcorn and *Father Knows Best*
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Three Beautiful Things 12-01-2025: Michael Made Me Happy, Boots on the Ground, Popcorn and *Father Knows Best*
1. Hearing from Michael today uplifted me. Margaret had put him in touch with some of the things I've written here on this blog and Michael ...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 11-30-2025: Remembering Everett, Farewell to *Deadish*, All Good Things Must End Some Day
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Three Beautiful Things 11-30-2025: Remembering Everett, Farewell to *Deadish*, All Good Things Must End Some Day
1. Today, Sunday, is the five year anniversary of the death of Christy's husband, Everett. When Christy reminded Carol and me that Everett h...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Three Beautiful Things 11-28-2025: Grandsons' Birthdays, Longtime Friends Get Together in Eugene, I Prepare a Panang Curry Dish tinyurl.com/mr3948f3 #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 11-29-2025: Grandsons' Birthdays, Longtime Friends Get Together in Eugene, I Prepare a Panang Curry Dish
1. Back in Valley Cottage, NY, our grandson, Jack, turned 15 years old today. His cousin, David, turned 14 (I think I got that right) at the...
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November 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Three Beautiful Things 11-28-2025: Checking on Bunz and Leo and Clark, Checking on the Elks Pantry, Combining Beach Bum Bakery with Laundry tinyurl.com/2w5b75ah #3BTs @alwaysagoodday.com
Three Beautiful Things 11-28-2025: Checking on Bunz and Leo and Clark, Checking on the Elks Pantry, Combining Beach Bum Bakery with Laundry
1. While Carol and Paul are enjoying a week away in and around Meridian, Idaho, I check on their pets in the morning and Christy checks on ...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM