Tag Archives: winter

Cold As A Dog’s Tongue

July 26, 2021 – 4:29 pm

Today 120 in Death Valley. 98 in Brooklyn. Ice cream stick in my hand. A glob of vanilla falls on my foot. Cold spreads on my skin Like frost from a hole in an Inuit’s boot Cold, but not close to zero in winter. And then the cold melts above freezing. A dog looks at […]

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What Snow?

March 24, 2019 – 4:56 pm

The US Meteorological Survey has reported that New York City received a little over twenty inches of snow this winter. All I saw were a few dustings, then again throughout February I was in Kenya and Tanzania. Snow topped Mount Kilimanjaro and some days ran down the slopes, however the equatorial sun melted the snow […]

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Snow In Thailand

January 2, 2019 – 11:26 am

http://bangkok.travora.com/articles/cold-front-brings-cold-temperatures-snow-to-bangkok There is a cold season in Thailand. Winter arrives right before Loi Krathong. Thais bundle up in the North and even in Pattaya locals complain about the change in the weather. They grab their arms with a shiver. “Nao.” “Cold? I’ll tell you about cold. When I was a kid, you had to put […]

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BEAR MEAT by Peter Nolan Smith

September 17, 2018 – 12:11 am

In August of 1987 Pullie Fallen, Grieg Packer, and I left New York City for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The art professor, literary agent, and I took turns driving Pullie’s F-150 pickup truck through the sweltering heat of the Midwest. None of us broke the speed limit, since Pullie had two unlicensed guns under his seat. […]

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2017 January

January 7, 2018 – 10:54 pm

I spend the first day of the year with the Camp family in Duchess County. It was cold, but not that cold. There wasn’t much snow. The light made us all young. Even me. A snow storm came and the Christmas tree went out on the street in New York. It snowed more in Fort […]

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