Tag: impatience

  • Autistic Invisibility

    Autism might be “all in my head”, but that doesn’t mean I’m making it up.

  • A Brief Lesson in Patience

    Come on! What’s the hold up?

  • Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

    Do snails ever get impatient?

  • “Just” 4 Minutes

    I see it happen every day. I open my drawbridge for a vessel, and at least one car does a u-turn and reroutes itself rather than waiting. This always astounds me. The average bridge opening here in Seattle is only 4 ½ minutes. But the time you take your detour, the bridge would have closed…

  • Take a Minute

    My computer just took forever to boot up. I was sitting here tapping my foot and grumbling to myself until finally it started working and I had access to the whole wide world yet again. I feel much better now. Every once in a while I have to laugh at myself. Where does this impatience…

  • Drawbridge Tao

    People can take it very personally when you interrupt their morning commute. Even though the average drawbridge opening takes only 4 minutes from start to finish and they should know to allow for the fact that their route crosses a drawbridge, when those red lights start to flash and that bell starts to clang, people…

  • My Blog Relationship has Reached the Next Level

    I have been writing this blog every day for over a year now, and I find that we are no longer in the honeymoon phase. You know what I’m talking about. That wonderful period when your blog loves all your stories, where it hangs on every word and laughs at all your jokes. “Type me…