Project No. 1: Cottage Table

I thought I left deadlines behind in my corporate job. Sometimes your kids have other ideas.

With the introduction to “The American Peasant” written (then unceremoniously rolled in a carpet and thrown into a lake), I can turn to writing the book's interior chapters. Usually, I start the writing process by visiting a topic I know cold. That way I can experiment with different voices for the book without worrying if I also have my facts straight.

So I began writing a chapter called: The Peasant's Workshop. It documents how you can use a kitchen table (or picnic table), plus a few clamps, some 5-gallon buckets and some scraps to do all the operations shown in the book.

I wrote the first draft of that chapter last week. I was about to revise it, take some photos and post it here when my youngest daughter mentioned that she was moving into her new place on East 13th Street this coming weekend. She needs a kitchen table – by Saturday.

Good thing…