The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: choices

  • Opinion Adjustments

    Opinion Adjustments

    We form our opinions based on the information that we have at the time.

  • The Size of Your World

    As long as you’re content, its size should be up to you.

  • My Fruitless Debate with an Anti-Vaxxer

    My Fruitless Debate with an Anti-Vaxxer

    I had to try.

  • The Waste of a Perfectly Good Little Old Lady

    Be a force for good.

  • Discouraging

    How dare you?

  • The Gifts We Give Ourselves

    We are capable of giving ourselves many gifts, indeed.

  • What Mother Does This?

    Sometimes I look back on my childhood and wonder how I ever made it to adulthood.

  • Forgotten Bruises

    I bruise easily. So easily, in fact, that I think my sister worried for a time that I was a battered woman, when I truly wasn’t. I’m just a pale-skinned klutz, is all. Quite often I can’t even say what caused a bruise. Many times, when I bump into a door knob (or whatever happens…

  • Staying Out of Trouble

    At the risk of sounding ultra-conservative (heaven forefend), I really don’t get it when people are incapable of staying out of trouble. I mean, I understand making mistakes, believe me. I’ve screwed up a time or two. But when you do it over and over and over again, and can practically hear Dr. Phil whispering…

  • The Choices We Can’t See

    “So, why didn’t you do it like this?” She asked. “Because it never occurred to me,” I replied. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had a similar conversation, both as the inquisitor and as the embarrassed person who failed to find the obvious solution. It makes you wonder how many choices are out…