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Since the time of preschool (age three), my year organized itself around the academic calendar. It remained that way through my university ...

Isis! Be quiet! Go back to sleep!   There's just a light cover of snow. Do you want me to sweep the roof?  No, you're not nimb...

Can I show you cold? The farmette at temperatures that stay significantly below zero degrees? It looks like this (taken on the way to empty...

Anyone who studies weather maps could have told you this was coming. We've been inundated with warnings of winds and freezing precipita...

If you were told -- there will be one day this winter when the sun will shine brightly and the temperatures will soar, maybe ten whole degr...

Up early. At sunrise. Captured in the bedroom window. Breakfast. Rather rushed.     Ed is off and away for his Friday tech meet...

There are the days before Christmas and the days after and it really is remarkable that they all share one month because really, they have ...

A morning of snow, of winter, of Christmas. He wakes up, shifts position and without even opening his eyes, says, as if programmed to do ...

Our holiday plays out in three acts -- the scene shifts, the players have to vary slightly, but it is one beautiful Christmas, made only mo...