The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: victim

  • It’s Not the Situation, but How You Cope With It.

    A friend recently posted this on Facebook: I had never really thought of this! But it’s true. A potato definitely copes with boiling water differently than an egg does. This is the case with many things: The sun will melt ice but harden clay. If you drop a turtle into a pond it will swim…

  • Ways to Increase Your Safety

    I take the issue of safety very seriously, perhaps more so than the average person. Due to some abuse I experienced in my childhood, I have been diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). It gets triggered when I feel as if people in positions of authority don’t have my best interests at heart, or…

  • Baby Talkers

    Personally, I could never bring myself to talk baby talk to children. They are going to need to speak properly if they want to get anywhere in this world, so you may as well start teaching them early. Sure, modify your inflection to sound more enthusiastic and get their attention, keep your sentences short and…

  • Raped by the System

    Ladies, you are twice as likely to be raped than you are to develop breast cancer, and yet less than 20 percent of the rape kits in America have ever actually been processed. 97 percent of all rapists will walk free. Just let those statistics sink in for a minute. It’s estimated that only 16…

  • “Toughen Up”

    On the heels of my blog entry “Having Your Heart Broken by a Career Choice” I got a lot of comments from people in the Dental Lab industry, many of which were very constructive and informative and have greatly influenced my concept of what I need to do as I move forward. But just as…