: pass the salt :
You know the Paul Simon song, “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes?” I hate to ruin the allusion, but those aren’t diamonds. That’s road salt.…
: if life’s a hockey game, i’m the puck :
Granted, no one’s chasing me with a stick, but give it time. That will be next in the cavalcade of misfortune. Right now, though, I have…
: frozen shoes :
You know, my coat froze once while I waited for the school bus, but never my shoes. This was a completely new experience for me. The…
: the polar vortex :
Cold such as this defies description. You can’t see it or imagine it or protect yourself from it. You want the ugly particulars? Fine, the temperature…
: a nod to details :
Today is National Trivia Day, ladies and gentlemen. A pretty big honor for such little bits of information, wouldn’t you say? We’ve devoted a whole day…
: welcome to the cruelest month :
T.S. Eliot was wrong; he said April was the cruelest¹. Well, what does he know? He was a poet², for crying out loud, a notoriously flaky…
