The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: bill bryson

  • Now, Why Didn’t I Ever Think of That?

    Now, Why Didn’t I Ever Think of That?

    Our brains have never left their dark caves, and yet we believe everything they tell us.

  • 1927

    I just finished reading the book One Summer: America, 1927 by my favorite author, Bill Bryson. I found this book particularly interesting because my mother was born in February, 1927, so it helped me put the scope of her life in context. A heck of a lot happened in the summer of 1927. Charles Lindbergh…

  • Signs and Portents

    One day a friend of mine was doing some gardening and a foot long mullet fell out of the sky with a thud, missing him by mere feet. Apparently the neighborhood osprey had butter fingers. You don’t expect fish to fall out of the sky. It sort of challenges your sense of reality. Coyotes have…