The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: patient

  • &%#$ Drawbridges!

    I’ve been making people late to work for more than 18 years.

  • Patient. Until I’m Not.

    I had a full-blown meltdown in public.

  • The Other Shoe

    I can’t have nice things.

  • Hunting for Unicorns

    I have always wanted a man who would actually listen to me when I talked. One who treated me with respect. Someone I could be proud of, due to his integrity, decency, honesty, kindness, and intelligence. A mentally healthy, confident, age appropriate, dog loving, nonsmoking, liberal guy. (Bonus points for being child-free and taller than…

  • Nature Doesn’t Clash

    I have a friend who is an artist, and when choosing his color palette for any given creation, he looks to nature for inspiration. He’ll take a leaf or a flower petal, for example, and put it under a microscope, and then use the colors he sees there. I think that’s a brilliant idea. If…

  • Living with Pain

    At the moment I have a migraine and I’m at work, so I can’t do anything about it. To say I’m not functioning at my peak would be putting it mildly. I wish I could go home, take my meds, crawl into bed in a dark, quiet room and just wait for the pain to…