The View from a Drawbridge

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  • My Blog Through Fresh Eyes

    Your comments mean so much to me.

  • My Voice

    I had a fascinating conversation with some old friends recently. I’ve known them for 10 years in the virtual world of Second Life. We hang out a couple times a week, but in all that time I’ve never heard their actual voices. All our communication is via text. Am I alone in this? When I…

  • Letter to a Future Love (In Hopes That He Exists)

    I’ve been looking for you for years. I often wondered if you were right under my nose and I just wasn’t seeing you, or if I wasn’t looking in the right place.  More than once I thought I saw you, and you just couldn’t or wouldn’t see me. I always wondered if you were reading…

  • Viral Days

    It’s funny. You can float along in cyberspace, completely anonymous to all but friends and family, and then all of a sudden, BAM! The limelight blasts you right in the cornea. It’s happened to me a few times. It’s always unexpected and seemingly random. And it feels very strange. I had one of those days…

  • Three Cheers for Stupidity?

    Recently Katie Herzog, a writer for The Stranger, a favorite publication of mine, posted a photograph of a man climbing the wide open Ballard Drawbridge here in Seattle. Fortunately this is not something that happens every day, so yes, I agree it was noteworthy. But here’s where Ms. Herzog and I part company. She said,…

  • What is it With Lists?

    Is it me, or are lists becoming ever more prevalent? In just a lazy perusal of trending topics today, I came across: 12 most iconic swimsuit moments. 5 tips to get the most cool from your car air conditioning. 25 makeup tips all older women should know. The deadliest snakes ever found on the planet.…

  • The NASA Tank Top Debacle

    Recently I shared this on my Facebook page because it delighted me. I love that someone is standing up for girls. I love that I’m not the only one in this world who wants girls to love science and dream just as big as their male counterparts. This small act just made me so happy.…

  • Ghosting

    Every once in a while, I think about the many people I’ve met on the internet who have come to be good friends. It’s a different world. As a young adult, before the internet, I could not have conceived that these types of connections were even possible. But children today are growing up taking these…

  • What to Do When You Can’t March

    I used to lament being born in the early 60’s. I was too young to participate in the “really good” protests. Be careful what you wish for. Here we are again. Unfortunately, I have a really strange work schedule, so most marches march right on past me. I would have loved to participate in the…

  • They Love Me in Ghana

    One of the coolest things about WordPress, in my opinion, is that they give me statistics of the countries from which my readers originate. I find it fascinating that I’ve had readers from pretty much everywhere (except China and North Korea for obvious reasons). I sit here in this little room, typing away, and I…