The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: lightning

  • My Black Sheep Uncle: In Memoriam

    My Black Sheep Uncle: In Memoriam

    “You are SUCH an asshole,” I hissed.

  • Holy Moly!

    Death exploded all around me.

  • Flying through COVID

    What a trip this was!

  • The Electrical Franklin

    This was a man who took scientific inquiry to the point of obsession.

  • Lightning Stories

    I find lightning fascinating.

  • Lightning Bolt Eyes

    What’s your super power?

  • Bad Bridge! Bad!

    I’d say that working on a drawbridge is a very zen-like experience 95% of the time. Unfortunately, you never know when that 5% of pure chaos is going to rear up and bite you on the patootie. I had one of those days recently. I went to bed at 3am. No, I’m not a party…

  • Lightning Strikes and Other Unforeseen Events

    The other day I was lying in bed, in the desperate pursuit of ever-elusive sleep (which is the life story of every graveyard shift worker on the face of the earth), when BOOM!!!! Lightning struck the house, and I instantly had two very terrified dogs on top of me. I went without internet for three…

  • The Black Sheep in the Family

    Every family has one. A relative who refuses to play by the rules. Someone who causes unbelievable heartache, unspeakable scandal, and enormous amounts of frustration. Someone who generates really, really interesting family stories. In my family that was Uncle Dave, my mother’s little brother. When my mom was young, she was bedridden with whooping cough,…

  • Nature is what’s happening while you’re not looking.

    Nature is what’s happening while you’re not looking.

    I’m a lucky woman to be able to observe the world in long running increments.