Day: February 23, 2011

NOTE: I wrote this column a while back when it was really cold, but never posted it. Since it was in the single digits this morning, I thought I’d finally get around to doing that. I know it also snowed so some of this isn’t relevant, but just deal with it

Usually, I try to keep an even keel. I don’t let things get me too upset even though some of the stuff I write might not seem this way. Typical every day things should not get any of us bent out of shape.

But I tell you, this cold weather is pushing its luck.

I know that it’s winter, and we all should expect some harsh weather once in a while. I have lived in Maryland or Pennsylvania all my life so I understand how winters around here can work.

For four years in college, I lived just about 40 minutes southeast of Lake Erie. Snow turned into an almost everyday part of life from Thanksgiving to past Valentine’s Day. You just dealt with it.

Last year’s huge snow storm didn’t both me because those sort of things happen once in a while. That helped me look at the snow a week ago and just kind of laugh. Sure, we got a lot, but we dug out and got on with our lives the next day.

Storms like those actually make me appreciate winter. Whether you go out and play in the snow or just sit inside wand watch it fall, the whole process feels like it has a purpose.

The bitter cold does no such thing.