The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: consequences

  • To The Jogger Who Jumped Across My Opening Drawbridge

    Next time, you might not be so lucky.

  • You Don’t Have To

    We are still responsible for our choices.

  • On Being an Adult

    Not all grownups are adults. It’s such a disappointment.

  • Be Careful What You Wish For

    Nothing ever seems as awful in retrospect.

  • The Consequences of This Pandemic

    What can we learn from the aftermath of the Black Death?

  • The Other Shoe

    I can’t have nice things.

  • The Current State

    Okay, so I have several theories about our current Grabber-in-Chief, and each one is scarier than the last. Specifically: He’s a little boy who delights in kicking ant hills so he can watch all the little ants scurry around in panic and fury. Why else would he change his views so radically, from one moment…

  • Stupid, Stupid Boy

    So, it’s fairly certain that one of the biggest fires in Oregon at the moment was started by a 15-year-old boy playfully throwing a smoke bomb into a ravine while hiking in the woods. To hell with burn bans. The world is one big video game! Woo hoo! If we destroy everything, we just hit…

  • It Hurts When I Do This

    Everyone has probably heard a version of this joke: “Doc, it hurts when I do this.” “Then don’t do that.” Simple, yet effective. And it’s also a source of profound frustration for me, because I’d be that doctor if I could. It’s often the most obvious solutions that are never employed. I want to shake…

  • Just One Step Ahead

    I don’t think I’d be very good at chess, even if I found someone with the patience to teach me how to play. I find it very hard to strategize. Thinking 3 steps ahead seems to confound me. If I were on Survivor, I’d be the first one voted off the island. Having said that,…