Tinkering around the edges
My new year’s resolution this year is to do better regardless of conditions. It will be tricky to track and the math will be fuzzy.
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A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS WINTER
You should go skating—crawling, I ought to say—over a pond of glare ice this winter. Take the pond you are most familiar with. Go early on a bright day, before any skater arrives, and lying flat upon the clear, “black” ice, study the bottom of the pond and the fish that swim below you.
Lip balm and tape measures
The drawer to the left of our kitchen stove is our useful drawer. After a while, it also holds a lot of things that get shoved there when we want to clear things off the counter.
Cozy winter
The weather is set to be cold, extremely cold, this week, with temperatures dipping below zero degrees at night for a few days. Today is Saturday, Jan. 18, and I’m sitting here in my favorite chair, wrapped in a blanket, and I can’t help but think about makes a winter truly cozy.
It’s sick season
In the winter months, it seems few are safe from some kind of illness — flu, COVID-19, norovirus, colds.
Notes from third spaces
The first Saturday night of 2025 at Skate Place brought out the youth. Holiday visitors had said their farewells and travelers had returned home. Classes were to resume that Monday.
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