dining table

Our dining table was always filled to the brim with an elaborate spread of homemade entrees and sweets.

Some showed off efforts to improve their living situation, including a dining table made of pallets, and plant beds lined with coconut husks.

“There are two bunk beds in there, there’s a double bed and there’s a fold-up dining table,” she says.

As we sat at her dining table, Dressback shared that she sensed she was gay in high school but said that “it sort of felt clear to me that I couldn’t have that life here.”

"Having smoke-free outdoor dining tables actually invited more families into our spaces and changed the business... and smokers can still smoke outside in other areas."