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 I could give you a dozen excuses for my plunge to the bowels of the pits in filing organization. And a few of those alibis might seem understandable. In the move from Seattle to Tucson, I'd left behind my filing cabinets and hadn't been careful enough in boxing personal papers. In Tucson, with a bad knee and limited public transportation, shopping for office replacements had proved to be beyond me. My work schedule and medical appointments got the best of my time management. Etc,  But screw excuses. I ended up with papers stuffed pell-mell in bags and boxes. And I couldn't find a thing. Furthermore, my new WIP demanded extreme organizational skills-- and I was starting to feel like an imposter.  I recalled an old strategy that I called Transfer of Funds-- depositing confidence and power from past accomplishments to areas if weakness. Could it work again for me with the mess that I found myself in?  To start, I bought a dozen cardboard bankers boxes, two dozen hangin...

Since last month I wrote about my glory box , I thought that this month, I’d delve into my filing cabinet and see what I can find to entertain you with. I got my little grey filing cabinet from the office at work. Really I did – the civil service building I was working in was closing down and they were getting rid of the furniture. Sealed bids for everything and I liberated a filing cabinet, a kitchen table and a large rubber plant. The bottom drawer is household stuff. Bills, personal documents, insurance and general household paperwork. The top drawer holds all my literary bits and pieces: 1) Copies of various FantasyCon event programs I edited, designed and produced. Some of these had big print budgets from advertising space we sold to the big 6 publishers.   2) A copy of Bella magazine circa 1993 containing my very first paid publication - a short story which they completely butchered while "editing". My character was a painter - they turned her into a...