“A practice trip,” I say to Jessica. “You think we need a practice trip before we decide about going to Italy.” Jessica loves to travel, and she spots a possibility for getting two trips instead of one. I don’t like to say she’s devious and manipulative, because I don’t think she actually knows how to…
Month: April 2012
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…