What I’m Doing Now

Updated July 31 2026

In Progress

• I have emptied my Mom’s apartment, and am slowly wrapping up her estate.
• I have moved and am unpacking.
• I am caught up with vaccines, and have new glasses.
• I have an actual office in the new place; with a desk and chair. Looking for a computer desk for the eventual iMac purchase.

Technology

• Following the model of Brad Dowdy, I have created a page listing my current analog defaults for writing.
• I am sitting on my hands to avoid buying a new iMac, as I expect current models will be less than the new versions expected this Fall. I write; I don’t need the latest and greatest.
• 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.

Reading

• I am firmly in comfort reading mode this year, re-reading old favorites.
• I re-read Tolkien’s The Hobbit, followed by the LOTR trilogy and Tom Shippey’s Author of the Century and his The Road to Middle Earth.
• 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 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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