I see the writer’s telltale (and familiar) pile of stuff on the floor, right at the foot of the fifty-buck desk. Whenever I manage to clear mine away, the office looks bare.

Does Temple of the Crap work?
Grandpa Dick would be very proud to know that he’s in the picture frame while the Dalai Lama is just pinned to the wall.

i’m going to go with word factory. is that a mac is see there? i’m about to buy a laptop myself and wondering which is the best to get.

Dude, that would be my “after” photo. That office looks way too tidy for a travel writer with more than one project in the hopper. Don’t feel bad–that looks quite organized to me. There’s an interesting book out, by the way, called The Perfect Mess. It’s theory is that cluttered work spaces usually mean more creative and productive people in the chair. The random connections of what’s at hand and the more frequent “a-ha” moments create more breakthroughs.