The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: rural

  • The Places You Go for the People You Love

    Everywhere you’ve been has value.

  • Misconceptions about California

    It’s a weird feeling to discover your views have been warped all along.

  • Rural Retirement

    The thing that would drive me crazy would be the boredom.

  • Exploring Washington State: Vashon Island

    Just a 15 minute ferry ride from West Seattle across beautiful Puget Sound takes you to a different world.

  • White Boy

    Growing up in a small town in the rural south, I encountered my fair share of interesting characters. One guy that I’d occasionally see around was known as “White Boy”. He was a huge guy with a huge chip on his shoulder. He was intimidating. He used to fight a lot. I never saw him…

  • Rooting for the Home Team

    When I was 10 years old I moved from my waspy, upper middle class New England house and wound up living in a tent in the rural South. It was quite the culture shock. But the biggest shock of all was finding myself in a public school where only 1 percent of the students looked…

  • Outing the KKK

    Back in the early 80’s, when I was 17, I was driving to a local park with an African American friend of mine to go swimming. To get to this park, you had to go miles down this rural road to its very end, then come to a stop at a T junction and make…

  • The Cigarette Girl and the Waving Man

    I spent the first 10 years of my life in Connecticut, so when we moved to a small Southern town in the 1970’s, it was quite a culture shock. The segregation was more subtle than it had been in the 50’s, of course. We all went to school together. But we certainly didn’t live in…