some stuff i've written about winter
Day 11: Embracing the Seasons
I’m scared to death of winter. Winter in Minnesota is hard — anybody who lives here will tell you that. Six months from the first snow to the last, face-numbing cold, day after day after day of grey skies. Winter…
Ghosts in the City
I used to be a photographer. Then somewhere along the way I stuck my camera in an old backpack and let it gather dust for a few years. But a snowy night in March seemed like the right time to…
Into the Winter
“…but the summers make up for it.” That’s what the people from Minnesota always said, when I complained about the long, cold winters. The summers make up for it. And I laughed at them as I packed my bags and…
So Help Me God (Almost a Poem)
Ernest Hemmingway once said, “There’s nothing to writing…. all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I think he might have been onto something. Words bleeding into life, snow bleeding into hope, day bleeding into night then…