Here we are, over halfway through March and still no sign of global warming. There have been tougher winters, but very few that seem as long as this one. Our clocks have sprung ahead and in a few days the calender says it is spring. The woodchuck...

About 8 a.m. on one below-freezing morning, I saw our apartment maintenance man, Toby Larson, scraping thick ice off the car windows in our parking lot. He is in his eighties and walks with a limp. That action surely is beyond his required duties.... Full story