Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing

After going to a roller-derby bout last weekend, M and I fell in love. (Not with each other this time, but with women's roller derby.) What better way to express that love than to share Valentine's Day with the team at the match they have called Kick Start My Heart? Yes, that's right, our romantic date will consist of watching girls on rollerskates grab, hit, trip, grope, and propel each other while hurling themselves around an oval track. Romance is in the air...