Between the By-Road and the Main Road

What the Lark Knows (M.A. Reilly, Ringwood, NJ, 11/23/2010) Someone in Australia  just purchased " What The Lark Knows ," ...

Devon and Rob --Such Joy. (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me ye...

from my art journal, 9.21.16 (acrylic paint, gesso, pan pastel, stabilo pencil) I. Devon was about 8 years old when Darty died. His p...

from art journal (M.A. Reilly, 2016) I. With grief, regression occurs. No matter what direction forward seems to be there is no strai...

L: my family, C: My dad with Devon, R: Rob and Devon I.  I woke up this morning dragged from a  dream I was having about fatherho...

Mountains (M.A. Reilly, 2016) I. Some days the world is grey as if all the color, the very brightness of life had been bled out. ...

I. In Elizabeth Alexander's memoir, The Light of the World , she chronicles the death of her husband and the aftermath. She observes,...

Rob in the Redwood Forest (Devon took picture)  I. Last Saturday night my dreams were filled with flames and soot, crackling timber a...

Devon at 14. This afternoon, I took my son clothes shopping.  This is a very unusual situation as I can count on a single hand the num...

Devon getting ready to drive... Dear Rob, Today was so bittersweet. I finally took our son to take his driving permit test--the t...

Coming through the Rye. This is an image I made of Devon years ago. I asked him to run through the field like he was in a Star Wars film....

Downtown Columbus, OH (M.A. Reilly, iPhone, 2016) Devon and I were in Ohio this past weekend, attending a Counter Strike tourname...

The New Fire Truck  I. When I think of the many ways that Rob loved his son, I am reminded of a line from Cormac McCarthy's  T...

self portrait (M.A. Reilly, 2016) I. It's the way he tucks her arm through his with such delicate care that catches my heart and ...

Boston (2015) A year ago, Rob, Devon, and I were in Boston. The city was frigid and snow was piled 5 feet high on the side of the stree...

You can access the site here.   Dear friends, Friends of ours have set up a GoFundMe site to help fulfill Rob's most important ...

Rob and Devon asleep at the hospital. (Feb. 2016)   "I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. Th...