I did it! I finally did it. I looked at my wonderpoodle this morning and said, “time to perform a miracle,’’ and we went upstairs and I completely cleaned an organized my very disorderly office. Threw away tons, recycled tons. Tossed all the magazines I was going to read “someday.”

I just got back from vacation, and looking around the house, I realized that the disorder in my office was sort of the source for the rest of the disorder I was creating. Everything eventually belongs in that office, but because I didn’t know where anything went, I just let it pile up.

One thing I did, which I suppose you’re not to do if you’re truly organized, is create a junk drawer for all the little things I don’t know what to do with. That was a wonderful release valve.

Now, I need to attack my other areas of disorder, and use my newly organized office as the central filing cabinet it is.