The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: virginia

  • U-Boats in the Gulf of Mexico? Who Knew?

    U-Boats in the Gulf of Mexico? Who Knew?

    Americans like to think that our country is safe from foreign military invasion, but history proves otherwise.

  • Lockdown Protests? Seriously?

    This virus cares nothing about your moral imperative.

  • How Do You See Love?

    I just finished reading Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani. Like many of her novels, it takes place in the mountains of Virginia. I have always wanted to live in those mountains, but fate seems to have eluded me in my efforts, so I figure I can at least read about them every…

  • Views from my Windows—Part One

    One of my first memories of any type of view was the sagging wooden third floor balcony of our shabby tenement apartment. I lived in fear of this view, because every time I stepped out of the house it was a certainty that our neighbor would be lying in wait. She was this loud old…