What I'm Doing...

It's been a busy summer so far. I've just signed a contract with the University of Scranton Press to publish my new book, The Metaphysics of Media, early next year. I attended the Media Ecology Conference in Santa Clara, California, a few weeks ago. I've been gearing up for my summer class at RU.

We've been thinking, for a while, about re-doing the kitchen. We know basically what we want. And we know what we need. What we wanted turned out to be far more costly than what we need. But I don't give up easily. I decided to do the job myself, start-to-finish.

Here's what we're starting with:






















Nothing beautiful; cute, functional and small. A one-person kitchen (it's mine). But not much to look at, nothing dramatic, not much personality.

We wanted to try something Tuscan or perhaps Provencal. Terracotta tiles for the floor. A tile counter and backsplash. New cabinets (old looking, of course). A plaster-look paint in some bright southern France/northern Italy hue.

The price to have a contractor do this was astronomical. Prohibitive. Nuts. Even to contract out parts of it were too expensive to handle. So, I'm doing it, as I said, myself. All of it.