On the need for cocktails at IEP meetings

I am sitting in Jessica’s IEP meeting thinking there is not enough strong drink available.  There is none at all, in fact, though my position has always been that serving alcohol would make these sessions easier to get through. I don’t mean to imply that there is anything difficult about the other people seated around…

On the pros and cons of jousting

Jess and I are at the Renaissance Festival, watching the troubadours and the fire jugglers and eating cinnamon almonds and discussing if the jousting is actually real. “Well,” I say, “they are falling off the horses. And that’s gotta hurt.” She considers this. “But do they know they are going to? Do they decide the…