My Desk

This is where I spend an inordinate amount of time. Allow me to give you a brief tour of those objects (ooh, I avoided using the word "thing") which surround and inspire me day to day.

To begin with, the desk itself. It is made of pine and, as you see, not very big. This keeps me from cluttering it up because otherwise, where would I put my elbows? I love it because it has a red top and yellow drawers and funky flowers for drawer pulls.

Some might suggest that such a small space is too cluttered for it's size. But there's nothing there that I don't love or use. To whit and on the left: the Sacred Frog of Efficiency (which I received after last year's Hood Canal vacay for using the fewest dishes in preparation of a meal (bouillaibaisse, if you must know - for Bastille Day), a framed photograph of The Child in full rain gear, licking rain drops off a table on the deck and the super fantastic glass shoe that had limoncello in it.

To the right, my home girls, who you've met previously.

Above my desk is a tea tray which I use as a magnetic bulletin board (and no, I'm not at all clever. I saw it in a magazine). Chief among the items on it are a magnets of Princess Diana, the Eiffel Tower and Hoover Dam; 2 poems by David Budbill ("What We Need" and "In The Ancient Tradition"), the top (vintage) from a chocolate milk bottle, some random magnetic words, stamps from Italy, the phone number of some new neighbors who need to be invited for cocktails and post-it notes, including one reminding me that I have to send Pat beer and salmon if the Dems don't take back the House this fall. May I add, a) like I'll have to and 2) like he'd let me forget.

Also on my wall are a groovy red clock and a mosaic cross made by my friend Katherine.

Oh, and my screen saver is the label from a bottle of Cotes du Ventoux called La Vieille Ferme which I love because it has chickens on the label but when I tried to soak an actual label off a bottle it wouldn't go so I settled for this instead.

So what's on your desk?