Papa's Office

I've always loved being in my grandfather's office. He's messy like me but he always insists he knows where everything is, unlike me. I love all the mementos from his days at WQXR and especially his print of a Chagall poster for the Metropolitan Opera, where WQXR often broadcast from. Sometimes my mom would volunteer there on nights when my grandfather was working. He knew all the composers of the time. It's the one thing I want most in this house.

When my sister and I were little, right when my grandparents first moved here when I was seven, we used to sleep in his office on the fold out couch which was where the cb radio is now. Papa used to put on his old Apple IIC and boot up a program called Fishes which would just scroll little bitmapped fish across the screen. And when I was 13 and spent a summer here in Plano, I would sit in his office for hours at night, pretending I was Carmen Sandiego catching international criminals on his new pc.