Okay, so we’ve been spending time getting the studio behind the house together and it’s finally become a place where it’s quiet and I can work (although new neighbors just moved in upstairs, single guys who work as bartenders, so who knows!).

Yesterday, I pulled out Starletta, with ideas about how to revamp, including changing the title–any ideas? I want to remove “Kitchen” from the title, in part, because it’s not a restaurant book. She’s a food writer and also because I don’t want guys to shy away from the book as some do from Pen on Fire because of the subtitle, which wasn’t my idea in the first place, but there you go.

So in the studio, yesterday, I found I wanted to sit here and spread out my stuff. And I did. I worked. And it was good. (I just need to finish getting the courtyard together … deliver things to Goodwill….)

The long and the short of it is, place is very important. And you gotta like the place in which you’re working to do good work. Or else you’ll think of any reason to do something else–anything else.