The Thaw

My first substack post: Letting winter be your teacher before the thaw.

There’s a full-on blizzard blizzarding this morning, and I’ve done what New Yorkers do—stocked my pantry with essentials like popcorn and wine, charged my devices, braced for the quiet chaos of a city forced to pause.

But I keep thinking about what happens after. Not just the digging-out part, though that’s the first step. The moment when you first step …