It’s January 12, and here in Wisconsin we just got the first real snowfall of the winter.

I’m ambivalent about the sudden and dramatic weather change.

Twenty-four hours earlier it was 52 degrees and I ran alongthe lakefront in shorts. Today I ran on a trail covered in snow with a freezing, blowing wind.

I relished every day that I could bike to work in January, but something just didn’t feel right. It wasn’t just seeing green grass where there should be frozen tundra.

Now with snow covering my yard, I remember what I was missing since last winter. THIS! ————————>