Will You Welcome Fall with a Sign or a Rake?
We put up a “Welcome Fall” sign and millions of leaves dropped into our yard. It looked like they were here to stay. They wanted a cozy place to rest but we aren’t running a […]
Tag: seasons
Resolved: No Resolutions
I don’t do resolutions, because failing is a terrible way to start a new year. If you make a major life change, do it gradually. A New Year’s Resolution is like someone who never exercised […]
A Hot Time In Every Town
I realized while going through old blogs that I write about winter way more often than summer. Like most humor writers, my work is usually about stuff I’d be complaining about anyway, so there you […]
A Real Weather Wizard
Seasonal changes can get confusing. Of course, every place in the world has the same expression: If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes: It’ll change. (There are possible exceptions, such as, say, the […]
Nice Winters, and Other Strange Concepts
We had such a nice, warm winter going on there. (Well … when you say “nice winter”, that’s always relative. But in northern Indiana, if the temperature stays above freezing for any amount of time […]
Could we at least finish summer, first?
September Sixth is the day I first saw Christmas items on the shelf of a local store. September Sixth. Well over a quarter of a year before Christmas. And yes, I have now been banned […]
Winterizing’s Not for the Weak
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK It can be nice to sit in my house and let the summer breeze blow past us. Or, to get even more breeze, we could open the windows. My house leaks […]
I don’t want to build a snowman
Maybe you’ve seen “Frozen”. Maybe you’ve been frozen. Either way, I think you can relate to how I changed the song’s words, to reflect my feelings about winter. If you’re not familiar with the song, […]
L.A. Does Too Have Seasons
This time of year, I often hear people spouting popular misconceptions about the Great Southern California Basin like erroneous factoids spewing out of a Fox News cornucopia. For example, the constantly repeated refrain, “L.A. has […]
Turning on Furnace Gets Cool Reception
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK This has been the fourth year out of the last five when my furnace didn’t want to work in the fall. Who can blame it, really? My internal energy source […]