My wife and I bought a new table. Nothing grand and gaudy, just a four-foot long, thin table that we intended to put office miscellanea on -- things like those pens you throw back in the drawer although you know they’re out of ink, half a box of paper clips that continues to spontaneously spill its contents, a couple of reams of paper, and maybe an innocent plant.
We planned to put it on the porch.…
