The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: redemption

  • The Betrayer of Anne Frank

    I “discovered” Anne Frank and her famous diary at the age of 12, so for me she felt like a contemporary. It seemed as if we went through puberty together. We discovered boys together. We were age-appropriately bratty and self-absorbed together. We had issues with our mothers together. (The fact that she was actually born…

  • Is There a Moral Tipping Point?

    It’s quiet here on the river tonight, and a pea soup fog is obscuring my view. It’s the perfect time for reflection. At times like this my mind tends to wander. I was thinking about a story that a coworker told me many, many years ago that has haunted me ever since. When he was…