Nostalgic movies are hot soup on a cold day. So forgive me if, in this little meditation on today’s arctic blast, I ladle in some of my favorite feature presentations growing up. …
Shedding Light

The sun will set at 4:25 p.m. in New Haven tomorrow. It’s the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, though it doesn’t have the earliest sunset. That already occurred on December 8, at 4:22 and change. …
Goodbye Kiss

An animated photo essay. To view the gifs, check out the email version.
This mild winter gave us a light but wet smooch on its way out the door yesterday. …
Unwinding

Our cross-country skis glide through an icy patch of snow with a zip, through powder with a hush. …
Choosing Slides

By the end of the day, it should be done snowing, and this 2018 story should be like fresh powder. …
Light Therapy

New England (along with original recipe England) being particularly dark and dreary this time of year results in a variety of coping mechanisms. …
Common Cold

They say the one constant is change, but something that hasn’t changed in a long while is our annual preoccupation with the common cold. …
Choosing Slides

Friday was a formidable day. Dervishes of powder whipped across the ground. Bare branches creaked like haunted house doors. The cold air burned. But the sun was out, and so were dozens of kids…
Positives and Negatives

A photo essay.
Return, if you will, to a moment before a foot or more of snow had blanketed New Haven’s already frigid earth…