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How to Build a Backyard Studio

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING you want up in your backyard all the time. It’s kind of like the tent you might set up once a year when the clan descends on your place for July 4^th. They leave, it comes down.

My recollection of the June day that we set this up in New Jersey was that it was just about as hot as any July 4^th I had experienced. Blazing sun. No clouds. So hot that Tom had to spend most of the day inside.

Tom contacted me through my blog, and told me a bit about himself. I’ve always been taken with stories, and his is wonderful, tragic, heartbreaking, inspirational, and moving. After reading his email ...