The View from a Drawbridge

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  • The Kind of Little Old Lady that I Want to Be

    I don’t want my advanced age to be my cage.

  • Singleness

    Recently I’ve felt a fundamental shift inside of me—a shift away from the desperate pursuit of love, with all its disappointments and body-blows to my self-esteem. No, I haven’t given up. I’ve just lost interest. Or perhaps it’s better to say that my interests lie elsewhere. I want to focus on improvement projects for my…

  • Plan Q

    A friend of mine posted a meme on Facebook that said, “If ‘Plan A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters! Stay cool.” My response to that was, “I think I’m on Plan Q.” And it’s true. My life has been a never-ending series of do overs; a veritable cornucopia of screw ups and…

  • Permission to Fail

    A friend of mine had been in a dark place for many, many years. He had been struggling with addiction, depression, and isolation. I had been worried about him for quite some time. And then slowly, little by little, over the course of a year, I started to notice positive changes in him. He got…