It’s not yet dawn, but as usual, sleep is fitful the night before I travel. Not that there’ve been that many trips in the 60 years since I first left home, or at least so it seems now. Yet each one feels wrenching. Did I pack everything? What have I.
I thought I’d built my last cabinet/bookshelf/workbench until this weekend when I realized I needed yet another. There’s hardly any room left in this old house, not even a nook or corner where I haven’t fit in some urgently needed item of furniture.
I was well along in my adult life, and thought I knew everything I needed to know, when Tom Flagg introduced me to the bent nail can. “You’re not throwing those out?” he exclaimed one day as I was doing exactly that – throwing away a handful of bent.
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