In my mind the year is something like circle viewed head on, with the winter solstice at the bottom, and summer solstice at the top. But it’s not perfectly round. It’s elongated at the bottom, where the dark, dull winter crawls slowly through the slu...
A couple of weeks ago I went to buy some new skates. My old ones currently sit in a coworker’s garage outside of Boston. I was playing with the company hockey team1 when I was there every week, and I didn’t have the foresight to bring my...
