The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: past

  • Looking Forward

    Sometime in the next few days I’ll be taking a ferry from Seattle out to Port Townsend, and I’m so excited. I’ve been itching to explore the surrounding area for quite some time, and Port Townsend is said to be an artsy little Victorian seaport. One of my coworkers even says there’s a beach near…

  • Loving and Winning

    I was driving down the road the other day and the song “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat came on the radio. I had one of those moments. Happy tears. Because that used to be “our” song. (Cheesy, I know, but whatever.) Used to be. I’m not one who falls in love easily. In fact, it’s only…

  • Why Not Build a Castle?

    If I had the luxury of having any career in the world (and some magic guarantee that I’d be able to make a living at it), I would be an experimental archeologist. I love to learn by doing, and there’s no other job in the world that allows you to do just that to such…

  • Time Machines

    I was sitting with a couple of friends the other day (waving at Caly and Mor) and we embarked on a flight of fancy, a sort of thought experiment about time machines. And now I can’t get it out of my head. I don’t know if this will reveal as much about the subject matter…

  • Little Shards of Emotion

    When I was around 17 it was decided that I needed my wisdom teeth removed. Unfortunately three of them were so deeply impacted that the dentist had to saw away parts of my jaw to get to them. Needless to say, the healing process was no picnic. But what they didn’t warn me about was…

  • Dodging Bullets

    Every once in a while you’re afforded a view of what your future might have been like if you had taken a different path. Sometimes it’s one of those moments like the final scene of The Way We Were. “Your girl is beautiful, Hubble.” It could have been great. If only. But this isn’t the…

  • Elements of the Future

    I was listening to Radio Lab on National Public Radio again today. What a fascinating show! This time they were talking about new theories regarding a caterpillar’s metamorphosis into a butterfly. I highly recommend that you listen to the 16 minute story, which is called “Goo and You”, and can be found here. Basically, when…

  • The Past, Present and Future of War

    If I were an historian, I think an interesting exercise would be to see if I could pinpoint one day in history, just one single precious day, when no country on earth was at war. I think it would be a lot harder to find than any of us would care to believe. Having said…