I am neither dead nor married …, originally uploaded by grabbingsand.

I’ve fallen out of the habit of haunting used book stores or antique shops in search of old postcards. There’s only so much time and even less opportunity. Local antique places deal more in the expensive items, pieces of furniture and china. Whatever happened to the boxes of magazines and photos and postcards, each one priced no more than a quarter?

But this is my favorite, out of all of the postcards I’ve collected. I uploaded a poor scan of it (and two others) to Flickr three years ago, but kept it on private. Not entirely sure why. The front shows a bridge in Poughkeepsie. And scanning resolution be damned, because the back is still readable. A good thing, as the first line that Rebecca writes to Elsie is perfect.

“I am neither dead nor married, simply negligent and busy.”

Rebecca should’ve written a novel.