Writing from the Table

Writing from the Table

Some Rooms Stay With You Longer Than Others

Indiana farmhouses, California Sundays, Sonoma in the early nineties.

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Jennifer Ann Blair
Mar 22, 2026
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Friends at a table, wine tasting, in Sonoma California, in the 1990's.
Wine tasting in Sonoma, California, in the 1990s.

Some rooms stay with you longer than others. Not the furniture exactly, though a good table is its own kind of architecture, and I have opinions about that. The idea of the table. What it means to set one. What it signals to the people you’ve invited to sit down. That you thought about them before they ar…

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