Erik MH:

In which I explain my motiv­a­tion for not win­ter­ing in Vermont

End­less cold, dark­ness, & snow. I can’t stay warm. I can’t get enough light. I don’t ski.… And as I’m post­ing this ret­ro­spect­ively in mid-March, I real­ize that I can­not remem­ber wheth­er my weath­er app was dis­play­ing tem­per­at­ures in Celsi­us (i.e., these tem­per­at­ures are cold) or in Fahren­heit (i.e., these tem­per­at­ures are bloody cold). Either is entirely pos­sible. Either would be entirely unremarkable.…

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Not quite a walk in the park

When I first learned that I had can­cer (while attend­ing Campers’ Week at Pine­woods), a good friend urged me to spend as much time as pos­sible out­side, walk­ing in the sunshine.

And when my fath­er-in-law heard last Septem­ber that I had can­cer, he wrote a very sup­port­ive note with many kind thoughts. This is the most rel­ev­ant today: .…

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