The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: powerless

  • Stop Calling Alcoholism a Disease

    Take responsibility. Take back your power.

  • The Op-Ed

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know exactly which Op-Ed I’m referring to.

  • Free-Floating Fury

    Right around the time that Trump got elected, I noticed that I was using the “angry” icon in response to a lot of my friend’s Facebook posts about what was happening. I don’t think of myself as an angry person in general, but so many outrageous things are going on in the world these days…

  • Adult-y Chores

    I was feeling petulant, so I did what petulant people do these days. I left a snarky post on Facebook: “There’s nothing worse than adult-y chores,” I was thinking. I had to go to the dentist and get a filling. I had to have the rear struts on my car replaced. I had to go…

  • The Boy Who Gives Out Toys

    Recently a friend of mine posted this video on her Facebook page. It is of a little boy who has lost both his parents, and one day he decided he was sick and tired of seeing everyone around him sad. So he bought a lot of tiny little toys, and started giving them out to…