The weather is exactly as it should be for this time of year... cold, dark, and wet. How do I survive? Glad you asked! SAD lights, sobriety, and vitamin D work for some people, but I simply leave my body and my sanity behind and embrace a bleak winter aesthetic.
I am the unsmiling Julianne Moore in The Shipping News, wandering about the shores of Newfoundland in a thickly cabled Irish fishermen's sweater. When I'm not staring out to sea for hours, I stand around my low ceilinged kitchen drinking strong coffee out of chipped mugs.
Yes, it's a hard life with great and noble pain. I should bake more bread.
