My desk

My desk at home, and the surrounding environs in my home office/library . . . well, stacks. Stacks everywhere. Each stack represents something I’ve started, or an interest I’m pursuing. A body length away from me is all the resource material for the long-intended project in American operetta. To my left is a stack of

The week

Scenes from last week . . . .

Library

The home library renovation is 3/4 done. Now I need to tackle some odds and ends of piles and things on my desk.

Library renovation

It started as culling books in my home library to make a place for the thundering emotional support piles of books that are littering — well, eating — the house. Then an ancient (well, 38-year-old) bookshelf decided to collapse. The Great Library Disaster of 2023. [These Pier One shelves from 1985 have lasted a good