Adventures with Words – November 2023

During the summer, the day fades slowly into twilight where it lingers for a while before turning things over to the night. The sun doesn’t want the day to end any more than the rest of us. Winter is completely different. In the winter, night falls. Abruptly. Without warning or fanfare. One moment it’s day and when you look outside a moment later, it could be anywhere between 5 pm to midnight. Winter sun doesn’t hang out, it heads home to slip into something comfortable underneath layers of fuzz...