It Was Pleasant To Take A Hot Drink Up To Her Room And Have It Beside Her As She Sat In Her Silent Room

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village."  ~ Roald Dahl (Matilda)

~quiet moments in the early morning~ Central Islip, Nov 2012

~not for sale~

from the archives-

somewhere in eastern Long Island, August 2009

~commute~

Chicago, September 2011

~night stories~

... These days feel numbered and long      There's no one to speak of, there's no one at all      But you're not the reason that everyone's gone...    

~ The Wallflowers- "how far you've come"

~at the Met, Nov 2012~