trapeze

Around 20 jugglers, trapeze artists and concession stand workers are filtering into the big top that the majestic Circus Vargas uses to perform across 25 California cities 11 months out of the year.

Navigating this period as a journalist and sole parent feels like being a trapeze artist without a net—each day teetering on the edge of madness.

“It was so eloquent. Like watching a trapeze artist on a high wire, poised gracefully in midair.”

And she had an adventurous side, having taken a trapeze class and gone skydiving with her husband, Seth Jefferds.

As for Morgan Gibbs-White exaggerating the challenge, and flying through the air like a trapeze artist, he should be ashamed of himself.