Best of Beth Ashley: Waiting for the next disaster to strike

Marin IJ archive

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2007.

If you’ve ever been nervous about bridges, you must be sweating now.

The recent catastrophe on the Minneapolis bridge has us span-o-phobes shaking in our boots. Have you ever felt more vulnerable?

The events of Sept. 11 were just the beginning of an underlying angst that has all of us on our toes, waiting for the next awful hit.

I am one who trembles in tunnels...