Around January of this year, I discussed my attempts to preventatively address the depression dips I'd faced over past winters.

It was usually in retrospect that I realized I felt so terrible because depression, and that, for me, that depression clawed into me around January/February. Y'know, that Seasonal Affective Disorder thing. Others face ( Read more... )

Last winter was… rough around these parts.  The temps were abnormally low.  Cloud cover was the norm.  Snow and ice lingered.  School closings were so commonplace, the local kids had perhaps two weeks of normal attendance between December and March.  Deprived of the sun, unable to feel productive, stalled in any professional endeavor that required ( Read more... )

Thank goodness I flew home yesterday! By the time I touched down in Indy, it was about forty degrees -- a mere thirty degrees below what I'd been living in for the past week, so hey -- and there was sun. This morning, the wind chill is in the subzero region, snow is falling, and winds are gusting. Schools are closed and flights have been ( Read more... )

Here's what it looked like from my back porch, Saturday morning.
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So, yeah, snow dumped on us last night.  The schools in our county and neighboring counties are all out on Spring Break, which means I'll have to make a judgement call later on karate.  I'm hoping to see a plow come by sometime in the next hour so we can make Dev's tutoring appointment with sliding off the road.

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