Monthly Archive: February 2010

04
Feb
2010

KINDNESS IS LIKE SNOW: IT BEAUTIFIES EVERYTHING IT COVERS

Two nights ago it was snowing again, kramsnö this time as the Swedes call it. Kram means hug. Hug snow! The kind that sticks, the kind that you lift your face up for and stick your tongue out to. The kind that mashes down just right in your mittened hands to form a perfect snowball; the kind that you can roll about the yard in serpentine trails that lead to a snowman’s body and torso and head. We’ve had an awful lot of the powder snow, the light glittery kind that sifts and blows and shines like diamonds in any...

02
Feb
2010

BITS BITS BITS OF TID

It’s been blizzarding all day: snowing sideways roundabout upsidedown. There is snow on half the windows and condensation on the others, which makes it very difficult to see out, when we look to see if it’s still snowing…which it always is. Clifford the Big Red Rock is sitting in over a foot of snow with a whitecap on his head. All my shoveling gone for naught! If I didn’t have to drive 2 kids to school tomorrow and if I didn’t have a Very Important Meeting first thing in the morning, I might be tempted to play the snowed-in card....