there are worse places to be stranded

--than in an apartment in New London, Connecticut, overlooking the harbor.

I went to see csecooney in a play, but the weather was doing this:



So the play was cancelled. And the drive back to csecooney 's place was cancelled, too. Instead we stayed with a friend of hers in the apartment with this beautiful view, watching movies, learning to blues-dance, eating homemade pizza, and chatting.

(Her friend tells me the barge up there transports home heating oil. A very necessary thing, especially this...