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What a beautiful day! Glorious sunshine, a climbing thermometer, peaking at 40F, gentle winds, blue skies. I saw none of it. I lived the ...

Warmth, or pseudo warmth in January -- it's a mixed blessing. You love it, reluctantly. Snow gets really brittle. It melts, it freezes,...

We're big on them: family birthdays. We travel for them -- or some date close to them, we wrap presents in colorful paper, we sing and ...

Break's over. Time to go back. The predicted rain never came to Venice Florida. The air was warm, the skies were beautifully varied. I...

I love seasons. I do. I'm one of the few that didn't even especially mind the polar vortex! But I do think that during winter, I si...

I am on a flight from Detroit to Ft Meyers and I am breathing a deep sigh of relief. There are a thousand reasons why a flight out of the M...

...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...