Ocean

...isn't this the perfect day to not go anywhere? Yes, yes, we woke to bitter cold again. I can't now remember the exact temperat...

I wake up before dawn. There is a certain amount of curiosity that one has about rare weather events. Polar vortex! What's it like outs...

...those two words are mine today. Understandably so. Now, the whole country knows that a polar vortex is sweeping masses of frigid air o...

Some days feel exactly this way: like a pause between two events. A commercial interruption. A coffee break. Okay, done. Now, where were we...

She asks me -- can we go skiing together Friday? I hesitate. It's going to be bitter cold. (There is a wind chill warning out. Winter...

On this day (a) Ocean is ten years old today! Yeah, that old! My first post went up when I was fifty, when my kids were just barely voti...

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...