When you move to a place where the thermometer can say, and did say just last week, -17, the weather occupies your mind in a deep and all consuming way. We had just gotten about…
Vermont got another foot of snow. And I had actually written the words spring cleaning the week before.. Pure folly. March typically gets as much snow as January does up here. This was sort of…
Yes, well, okay it’s true, they have boots and gadgets, and we might just have few bags or pairs of shoes. But once you move to Vermont you can’t wear them anymore anyway. For one…
Something happens to men when they move from the city to the country. They start wanting things. They get rain jackets for fly fishing that would get them through a monsoon. Then they collect an…
When did they invent the wind chill factor? When it’s zero outside, it’s cold. And when the Internet says that there is a wind chill factor of-50 it’s still cold. But we already knew that….
I live in the country but must travel back to the cities to make a living. I have come to enjoy the juxtaposition of city anonymity to the close intimacy of my village life. When…
Here’s something they don’t tell you before you move to your northern isolated beautiful mountain paradise. Winter is loud. First there are those silent snowfalls and you are deeply in love. You stand amidst the…
