I’m sitting in my office, on this old cane chair, that has a too thin pad on it. My other chair broke, the nice leather one. I don’t remember when or why. Thinking of a chair takes me to Craig’s List, and I’m not writing but shopping.

So – but- however, sitting on this nasty, hard chair in the office/library/recording studio. Man o man, what a man I am, a renaissance man I am. It’s true, student, business leader, author, photographer, chef, sailor just to begin the list. My wife would like me to add husband to the beginning of the list.

I’m crowded in but comfortable here. Few guitars, electric and acoustic, amplifier, keyboard, harmonica, ukulele, bongos. A 25 year old aquarium (there is a full story in that one). Books, a lot of books, old and new, read and unread. Books on writing, music, history books, Beatle and Elvis books, books bout dogs, hey that’s cool – books bout dogs- could be a song in that! Hardy Boys books, the Three Investigators, Vietnam, USS Arizona, needles to say, I am a depository of a lot of useful information, a possible game show contestant.

Radios of various sorts, scanner, shortwave, high power AM, listening in on the world. There’s a lot going on out there, and I feel better if I know about it. A few different ways to record things, music, thoughts, interviews. Maybe if I had an old reel to reel recorder my life would be more complete. Or complicated. Can you buy tapes for them anymore?

Support gear for writing, PC, dictionary, thesaurus, pens, paper, books on how to write, get published, blog, start a website, just ready to bust out on it.

We could take a tour of the sports closet, but that’s also another adventure in itself, along the lines of the 25 year old aquarium. We’ll head there one of these days.

Back to the writers space. Up until now I was merely thinking of, reading about and planning to write, but I’ve found that in the office here I am. Writing that is. Truth be told it’s a matter of perception. In the not to distant past I’ve had a number of articles published. Letting it all hang out I’ve merely been on a sabbatical, collecting information and thoughts for the future, which has arrived.

And so, I take my pen in hand………………..