Insanity and Ice Fishing, But I Repeat Myself
I hear it’s going to be a “good” year for ice fishing. I thought every year was a bad year for ice fishing. I mean, it involves standing on a frozen lake in the middle […]
Tag: winter
From Halloween On, It’s All About Fending Off the Cold
Yes, this is late … but our trick or treating got a weather delay. There’s probably no better timed holiday than Halloween. After all, it comes just before the two most frightening times on the […]
Ambient Snow Noise
At my chiropractor’s the other day (her office, not her home), she was playing one of those ambient noise CDs that’s supposed to relax you. At the time she was pushing my spine into my […]
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 […]
Resolved: No New Year’s Resolutions
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, mostly because failing is a terrible way to start a new year. If you’re going to make a major life change, it’s usually best to do it gradually. A […]
Singing Up a Spring
Hey, I wrote a song! It’s not a great song … but then, I’m not a great song writer. There are two problems: First, I meant it to be humorous, but it comes off as […]
Life is full of disappointments….or is it?
Unfortunately, I was to speak tomorrow in front of an amazing group of Women at the TriCounty Community Network Women’s Symposium. Rightfully, the event was canceled because another Snowmaggedon is coming and […]
In Praise of Snow Plows
I live on a state highway, so I generally wait to shovel my front sidewalk until after the plows have gone through. (Okay, the neighbor’s been snow blowing my front sidewalk, having apparently taken pity […]
Stop The Snow … And the Disney Songs
I first posted this a couple of years ago, but it seemed really appropriate today, since as I type this there’s a winter storm raging outside. I hate winter storms. Well, only if I have […]
Winter brrr-becue for the brrr-ds
It was January. And what a perfect time to be outside in the sun. My wife, our 11-year-old boy and I went on a morning hike. In Southern California, you can do that. Still, my […]