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‘Ask Charles’ No. 1
Posted in Ask Charles on Fri, March 12, 2010
Q: Do I work out of the house?
A: Sort of. Our house doesn’t have a garage. Because of that, we bought a portable, metal shed and had it dropped in the back corner of our yard when we moved in. Christy liked the aesthetics of it so much that she quickly surrounded it with shrubs and bushes which now conceal it quite nicely. Anyway, we stored all the normal garage stuff in there. I.e., Christmas decoration boxes, flashing reindeer, ski clothes, kayaks, lawnmowers, backpack blower, etc. I took a closet in the house and turned it into my office…
That served as my office until about three years ago when the boys got ‘growed enough’ (it’s a great southern word, only really makes sense if you’re from around here) to start making more noise than my closet door could block. So, one day they were running around the house, being boys, and rather than scream and yell, I just figured, ‘the problem ain’t them. It’s my location.’ So, I walked out of the house and found myself staring at the shed. Thirty minutes later Christy found me unloading it and putting all that stuff in the middle of our yard. She helped me move my desk in there and moving the laptop was rather simple. Today, it’s carpeted, painted, and even has a window a/c unit. As for the stuff I spread across the yard, we got rid of a bunch of stuff we didn’t need, I built a kayak rack behind the shed and moved everything else to one closet in the carport. Thus far, I’ve written three books in here. Working on my fourth.
I knew there had to be a better purpose for that ugly building in the backyard. I’ll tell my husband. Maybe it’ll encourage him to spend some spare time on the “great American novel” he’s got running through his head.
I just finished your book “The
Mountain Between Us”. Great book the first I have read by you, now I will look for the others and any new ones. Thanks it was truly a great book.
I am curious as to what kind of medical training you have or how you became so knowledgeable about Orthopedics. All the observations made in “The Mountain Between Us” had to have had some medical background ?