The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: photo albums

  • Other People’s Photo Albums

    You young people may not know this, but once upon a time, before digital photography, people used to collect photo albums. They would take up a great deal of space, and were usually only taken out for viewing when some friend or relative needed to be tortured. Gazing at Great Aunt Mabel’s trip to Atlantic…

  • The Futility of Accumulation

    I long to have one of those minimalist homes with wide expanses of floor space and no tchotchkes to dust or arrange. No clutter. No collections. I want to be able to move all my stuff from one house to the next in just one or two carloads. I often look around at the mess…