The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Security

  • That’ll Be Quite Enough Adrenaline for Me, Thank You

    That’ll Be Quite Enough Adrenaline for Me, Thank You

    Nothin’ to see here?

  • What’s Your Idea of Safety?

    What does it look like? How does it smell, feel, and sound?

  • Security Blanket

    Most children will learn that the world is cruel soon enough.

  • Bridge Break In

    It’s amazing how much an evil outside force can alter your worldview.

  • Space Invaders

    Sometimes they really are out to get you.

  • Devictimization

    “…people don’t ask victims for solutions.”

  • You Just Got A Lot Less Free

    Recently, the Supreme Court ruled against you, me, and everyone else in the Janus vs AFSCME case. Now, everyone in the public sector, regardless of the state in which he or she resides, is in a “right to work” state. Basically, it means that people in union jobs in the public sector no longer are…

  • I Scared Someone

    Imagine this: You are a woman, alone, jogging so early in the morning that the sun isn’t even awake yet. Heck, most of Seattle isn’t awake yet. It’s Saturday. You start to jog across a drawbridge when a car pulls into the bike lane behind you, a place where it has no business being. You…

  • “Be safe going home.”

    Have you ever had a conversation that caused you to look at things in a whole new way? I had one of those recently. I was having a delightful chat with a guy about fun things to do in Seattle. I’d never met him before, but he gave me lots of good ideas. Then, at…