I don't have many secrets left after writing my blog for 7 years ... except one. But not anymore, today I answer the question, "What do I keep in my drawers""

Now that I am an AIA Fellow and I’ve officially hit the big time, people are continually stopping me everywhere I go and asking me, “O Supreme Leader, now that thou hast hit the bigeth league, couldst thou bestow upon us regular folk your secret"”Well, after writing a blog like mine for 7 years, you don’t have very many secrets left, but I do have one, and it’s something I’ve never shared on this site before … the only secret I have left is what I keep in my drawers. I’m not even sure how the topic came up but last week some of the people in my office had me show them everything I keep this particular drawer – and while I was a little reluctant to show them my goods, in the end, I decided it wasn’t that big of a deal. After having a few laughs at the randomness of the stuff I have held onto, it was suggested that I turn the contents of this particular drawer into a blog post – an archive of sorts. Everybody has a drawer like this – some people have one at their office, some people have one in their home, and some people have both. I know that in every house I work on I know that there will eventually be a drawer that is full of garbage – the things you think you should hang onto because it either seems wasteful to throw...