The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: failure

  • A Brief Pause for Failure

    Don’t give up. Things will change.

  • Let’s Each Pick a Theme!

    A much more attainable self-improvement plan!

  • A Failure to Completely Alter My Life

    Baby steps I can do. But this…

  • Guidance Counselor Horror Stories

    “Give up, loser.”

  • 12 Things to Discuss before Getting Married

    It’s really important to have all the hard conversations beforehand so that you know what you’re getting yourself into.

  • The Imposter Experience

    My whole life, I’ve been waiting to be found out. Not discovered, like some pretty girl sitting at a soda fountain in Los Angeles, destined for stardom. No. Found out. Exposed for the imposter that I am. I expect to be grabbed by the elbow. “You don’t belong here! How did you get here? Get…

  • When the Love Spell is Broken

    Love is like a drug. When you’re deep in it, especially in the early stages, it’s hard to see flaws. Red flags just look like a pretty splash of color in your world. You want to bask in the fact that you seem to have found evidence of perfection, and that perfect person, against all…

  • Singleness

    Recently I’ve felt a fundamental shift inside of me—a shift away from the desperate pursuit of love, with all its disappointments and body-blows to my self-esteem. No, I haven’t given up. I’ve just lost interest. Or perhaps it’s better to say that my interests lie elsewhere. I want to focus on improvement projects for my…

  • Failing Forward

    The older I get, the less I view failure as the end of the world. Yeah, it’s depressing, or at the very least embarrassing, but I’ve been shown over and over again that things that might seem as though they are a catastrophe while they’re happening are generally happening for a very good reason. Case…

  • The Thirty Million Words Initiative

    If I haven’t said it recently (but I’m fairly sure I have), I absolutely love National Public Radio. I learn so much from NPR that I probably would never know otherwise. Case in point: the Thirty Million Words Initiative. One of my all time pet peeves is parents who do not read to or communicate…