The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Mistake

  • Sage Advice from Mom

    I have benefited throughout my life from these pearls of wisdom.

  • Discouraging

    How dare you?

  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    I am so grateful for all that Fred Rogers did for me.

  • 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…

  • Shame, in Retrospect

    I know a few people who are embarrassed about the way they lived in the past. Conservatives who once were hippies (Personally, I don’t see the shame in being a hippy, but to each his own), peace activists who served in times of war, survivors of multiple marriages, former cult members who have since come…

  • Give Me a Break. Please.

    Recently I met a new artist in the virtual world of Second Life. He is amazingly talented but lacks confidence. He’s desperate to break into the art scene, but doesn’t know how to promote himself. I remember what that’s like. When I first started making fractals, I was so inexperienced I was afraid to show…