Lisa L. Spangenberg Now

What I’m Doing Now

Updated September 9, 2026

I have emptied my Mom’s apartment, and am slowly wrapping up her estate.
I have moved and have unpacked all the boxes.
I have a home office now. I am shopping for a table type desk for the eventual iMac purchase.
I have a window bird feeder that fills from the inside, that I hope to have installed before winter.

I have updated my analog defaults for writing tools.
I am sitting on my hands to avoid buying a new iMac now. I write; I don’t need the latest and greatest. I hope to pick up a current iMac as a refurb when the new iMac is released.
I dropped my beautiful Project Red SE third generation iPhone on the floor of the garage, shattering the top of the screen. I will use it as long as I can, and hope to pick up an iPhone 17 as a refurb. It makes me very sad to see my red SE now.
I have neighbors, including one who drums. I am so very happy to have Bose Ultra Quiet Comfort Bluetooth headphones.

I am firmly in comfort reading mode this year, re-reading old favorites.
I have re-read all 21 volumes of C. J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series for the nth time
I re-read all six of Dorothy Dunnet’s Lymond Chronicles, again, for the nth time.
So far the best new-to-me books I have read this year are Amy Tan The Backyard Bird Chronicles and Clare Walker Leslie Keeping a Nature Journal. Both books are beautifully illustrated, and it’s especially worth buying the print versions.

My Now page was inspired by David Sparks’ Now page.

You can see previous Now pages, AKA Then pages.

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