‘No time for hazy notions’

The Wood River Inn, in Wyoming. R.I. On the National Register of Historic Places, it was built in 1850.

John Phelan

“Miss Rainy Roth of Wyoming Rhode Island, did not believe in luck. Sixty one years old, a self-sufficient woman with a business of her own, she had no time for hazy notions. People who believed in sudden strokes of good fortune, she thought, were simply seeking an excuse for idleness.’’

— From the short story “Rue,’’ by Susan Dodd (born 1946), American writer