The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: safe

  • Not Even the Inmates Run This Asylum Anymore

    Where’s Shane when you need him? Oh, yeah. He rode off into the sunset.

  • The Waste of a Perfectly Good Little Old Lady

    Be a force for good.

  • At Least I Sometimes Feel Safe

    There’s always an oasis somewhere, if I need one.

  • Finding Your Unsafe Place

    There’s nothing wrong with being comfortable. Unless.

  • Is the World a Safe Place?

    That one question accurately determines whether you are a Republican or a Democrat.

  • What Mother Does This?

    Sometimes I look back on my childhood and wonder how I ever made it to adulthood.

  • An Atmospheric Shift

    Some connections are every bit as precious as the air that you breathe.

  • For All the Unsung Bridgetenders

    For the first time in many, many years, I will not be ringing in the new year all alone at work. This is not because after 16 years as a bridgetender I’ve earned a certain level of seniority. No. It’s simply because this time around, the holiday just happened to fall on my regular day…

  • My Own Personal Pleasantville

    For those of you who are unfamiliar with the movie “Pleasantville”, I highly recommend it. A boy from the 1990’s is obsessed with a sitcom from the 1950’s called Pleasantville. It’s your typical show of that era, showing a world that never actually existed, in black and white, where the mother wears pearls and high…

  • Letter to a Future Love (In Hopes That He Exists)

    I’ve been looking for you for years. I often wondered if you were right under my nose and I just wasn’t seeing you, or if I wasn’t looking in the right place.  More than once I thought I saw you, and you just couldn’t or wouldn’t see me. I always wondered if you were reading…