As I write this, on the 8th of December,
it is “winter”,
yet winter, as I remember it, has yet
to arrive…
not a single snowflake can be found
anywhere.
When I was a kid, winter was a
glorious time, filled with
playing in drifts and building snow
forts in the absolutely
huge snow piles cleared from
city streets and parking lots.
To be sure, there were some
years without much snow,
but most years (before gaming
sy…