The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: priorities

  • Shifting Priorities

    I can’t even remember the guy’s name.

  • Let’s Be Gentle with Ourselves

    I’d rather be a hammock than a trampoline.

  • Taking Stock

    “You’re alive! Don’t you get it?”

  • Ranting Just Got Harder

    A rant about not being able to rant.

  • More Wishes

    When I was a child, I used to imagine that if a genie granted me three wishes, one of my wishes would be more wishes. As if I were the only person on earth to ever have thought of that. As if I’d never run out of ideas for wishes. As if I were a…

  • Your Stool is Worth HOW Much?

    My doctor was running late. (Aren’t they always?) So I found myself sitting in a waiting room with nothing good to read. Out of pure desperation, I began flipping through a fashion and style magazine. I figured that would be good for a laugh, and I was right. It never ceases to amaze me how…

  • “De kleine tafel!”

    I was living in Holland one glorious summer (I call it my summer of love), and one day I was helping a friend move from one apartment to another. The car was nearly packed and I was standing beside it while my friend was inside looking for anything that may have been left behind. Suddenly,…

  • First Things First

    I take pride in having my sh*t together, but if I’m honest, I haven’t really had it together in quite some time. I’m not quite sure when I lost all sense of organization, but it was, oh…decades ago? Because of that, when the occasional crisis happens, as they do, I tend to feel extremely overwhelmed.…

  • Everything’s an Observation

    I was looking at my blog categories, and I just realized that I categorize every blog entry, over 1300 now, as an observation. That makes me wonder if I should do away with that category entirely. When you get down to it, everything in the world is an observation, isn’t it? To form an opinion…

  • Those Popcorn Moments

    I was talking to a friend the other day and she said that as a single mother money was always tight, so she didn’t get to travel. Even though she didn’t really consider it a major regret, that kind of made me feel guilty because I’ve been to 22 countries. It’s been a while since…