Tag: snow
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January 18, 2018
On a recent plane trip, I was reading The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. I was halfway through the book when the plane landed. As we were disembarking a woman behind me said, “That looks like a good book. Is it?” I said, “Oh, it’s wonderful. I recommend it to you wholeheartedly.” And then on…
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December 24, 2013
I was driving home the other day and got stuck behind a car that was traveling impossibly slowly and also kept jamming on its brakes. “Arrrggh!” I shouted. “What is the problem up there? What are you doing?” And then, even though the day was clear, there was a sudden shower of snow across my…
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December 6, 2012
When I was a kid, my mother took us every Christmas to visit Jordan Marsh, a department store in the Colonial Plaza Mall in Orlando, Florida. We ate at the restaurant (I can’t remember the name of it now; was it the Oak Room?) and then went to the toy department and visited Santa. But…