inter Woes

ICA MEYER MUM
PECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

any people I truly respect have
ecided to endure winter.
More power to you, but no
anks.
Fm sure the Almighty had His
no when He created sleet, ice
d freezing rain, but — as with
any things — those reasons are
inscrutable tome. Punishment is
e closest rationale I can guess.
I can find no room in my heart
to love a climate that requires
pending an hour per child just
undling them up to go out and
ing them from their bundling
nce you get back in. I'm not in-
terested, truly, in drying soggy
coats and boots three or four times
day and being cold almost all the
e.
Maybe I could get used to it. But
as a born Southerner and a two-
decade Miamian who complains
itterly when the thermostat —
once or twice a year, like right
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the joys of winter. I lived "up
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north," in New York, for one year
of graduate school and had a vi-
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May. I blamed it on the chill,
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though the smog didn't help. I
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edly deserve at the end of a long, hard day.
ing sleet, wrapped up in every-
thing I owned and still freezing. If
too.
you have to make it there to make
it anywhere, I'll never make it.
This is not to say that I can't
find some temporary recreation-
al value in new snowfall. Before
the slush, before the brown ooze,
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before the icing-over, I can fling
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a snowball and build a snow man
and carve out snow angels with
the best of them. But after that
half-an-hour, rm done, thank you.
And if winter is a hazard six
days a week, it is worse on the sev-
enth, Shabbat. I am not constitu-
• If you change your mind,
tionally suited to walk to shul,
teetering on slippery ice-slicked
we change the carpet
streets and sidewalks. I can fall
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On the recreational side, I fear
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I am the wrong person for sports
based on balance amid cold cir-
cumstances, such as snow skiing,
snow boarding and ice skating. I
can watch ice skaters with fasci-
nation for hours on end; but put
me on the ice, and I'm a terrified
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