They eat the same breakfast as I do, and it is so damn easy to make.

Pictured below is the morning table of Wisconsin’s Jessi Schweiger, who I like to think of as Lady Hemingway.  She is the author of the truly terrific poem, “California Kingdom,” which we featured a while back on this blog.  (Check it out under the “Related” tab below this entry.)

A writer’s breakfast is as sublimely pragmatic as it is enjoyable — you’ve got each of the four food groups represented: caffeine, nicotine, donut and inspiration.

In addition to being a talented scribe, Jessi is the bartender at The Dawg House in Waubeka, WI, and she lives by a river where she raises chickens and ducks during the day.  I’m not sure one can get much cooler than that if one lives outside New York City.

Keep pennin’, Jess.