appreciating winter

  • Where is Winter?

    Where is Winter?

    This month has been unseasonably warm. Usually by mid-December we’ve had a few snowfalls. Frost coats the car windshields each morning and temperatures drop below freezing until the end of March. But we’ve been enjoying lovely September weather this Christmas. I didn’t have much experience with the cold growing up. Living in the Texas coastal

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  • Winter Reflections: Seeing Myself in the Season

    If I were a season I’d be winter. Not just because I was born in December, and not because physical appearance can only be described as “snowy”. It’s not anything so obvious and concrete. The connection is more of a feeling beyond reason. I don’t know if I can say that winter is my favorite

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  • Winter Rest: letting myself rest and reset this season

    There is a long list of things I should be doing now. I should be taking product photos and making new signs for my business. I should be building out the new website and working posting for promotion. I should be updating my resume and LinkedIn profiles and applying for jobs. I should be working

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  • Winter Wonderland: Cold December

    This December has been one of the coldest of my life. I’ve been in Utah for 14 years, but as Utah has been in a drought for just as long. My first winter in the Rockies was filled with ice and snow, but each consecutive year the snow came later and later. Many years we

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  • Learning to Love Winter

    Learning to Love Winter

    I have never been a fan of the cold. Growing up in Southeast Texas, cold wasn’t something I encountered very often. The few occasions when the thermometer dropped below freezing were rare and therefore exciting. The fantasy of building snowmen or having a “white Christmas” were just that, fantasies. Until I moved to Utah and

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