Last night, Rob and I went to see Two Gentlemen of Verona, a nineteen seventy-one musical based on Shakespeare’s play. When we got home, I chased Goblin around and around the dining room table as she played “keep-away” with her stuffed hedgehog, Cher. We were having the time of our lives until I tripped over the pile of recycling conveniently strewn across the floor. Then she retired into a corner to chew lovingly upon Cher’s nose, and I went to eat a hard-boiled egg.