I sit inside the small loggia every afternoon. Cerefina likes lying on the floor beside me and watching people saunter along the driveway.

This is the antique, writing slope I use. I bought it from Sam Fiorella of Iowa City years ago. It is made from the top of an old and obsolete classroom desk. It originally had students' graffiti all over, but a friend once offered to revarnish it and thoughtlessly sanded off the graffiti.