I have started and stopped so many posts this winter. Cooking has been a bust. My recipes these days are:
Ingredients
Doritos, preferably Buy 1, Get 1 Free
Directions:
Open bag. Consume.
This has been a very tough winter for many, especially in my area of the world. I have always loved winter, I have always defended winter when no one else did, and now I feel angry and betrayed. Winter is no longer my friend.
As a long-time fan of the haiku (short poems with syllables in 5-7-5 format), I decided to take pen to paper finger to iPhone 5s and work out my angst via haiku. I present to you Haiku for the Winter of Our Discontent:
Where is my black car?
Help, someone has stolen it
Wait, it’s this white one
School cancelled again
Clever principals “rapping”
Farewell sanity
More snow means fun snacks
Cake, cookies, brownies, not fruit
Yoga pants only
My spirit broken
Nothing is going as planned
Like Sochi toilets
Milk, bread, butter, eggs
Darn, what am I forgetting
Martini olives
Foyer of chaos
Scattered boots, jackets, wet clothes
One lost glove weeping
Graveyard of tree limbs
Preserved in icy landscape
Like dinosaur bones
More snow in forecast
Is this December or March?
Must be a sick joke
Cruel Mother Nature
Why have you forsaken me?
My tears have frozen
Would love to hear any of your contributions in the comments section. Spring will come eventually, and I will cook again. Below are actual unPhotoshopped pictures of my house, lest you think I’m being melodramatic.
Mom Mom's Apron 
Right there with you Dawn
Weather intolerable
Springtime please come soon
~Sue
I bought cute boots but
Only Bean boots and wool socks
Ever leave the house
excellent
So true! I especially like your foyer of chaos line! Reminds me of our shoe rug! And did you notice that when the power was out, no snow pants, gloves, boots or hats actualy dried in our sub-zero homes?
LOVE LOVE THIS! You never cease to amaze me and I couldn’t agree with more. You Rock!
MISS YOU! Hope we catch up soon. xoxo
Here in Florida
Eighty five then forty then
Back again whiplash
go Claire
What clever readers I have! Enjoying them all.
I think many people would agree with you. I should ask my son in Brooklyn to write one to share:). Here’s to a lovely spring that makes this winter nothing but a memory of snowdrifts, which aren’t so bad in retrospect.
You and Ed have very different perspectives on winter!. He talks about the beautiful, silent snow. It is wonderful for his peace of mind, and with 3 boys, hey, they are happy out of school and skiing with their dad. BUT, I feel your pain (you and Catherine).
Oh Dawn, I could not agree more! I just broke down and booked my trip to Arizona (though I don’t leave until early April!). I think I have a life-threatening Vitamin D deficiency!