The Omni

The room just off the kitchen at the front of the house is bordered with bookshelves, as are most rooms in our house. This particular room is packed with a mixture of science fiction, foreign languages, poetry and plays, almanacs, contemporary fiction, and my book, soon to be plural. The shelves also house friend and family photographs both framed and in albums, and bric-a-brac from my life: postcard size paintings, plaques with encouraging words like Life Is too Short To Be Anything But Happy,...