Winter on the Right Coast

This post first appeared as a guest blog on East Coast by Choice.

The conversation usually starts off like this: I make an innocent reference to one of the many objects that I own and take completely for granted, like my bent-handled snow shovel or extendable ice scraper.  Or maybe I rave about my favorite hat, best boots, warmest gloves, softest neck gaiter…

And after one or two polite remarks, I'm invariably asked:

"How do you STAND it?"

The "IT" is winter. The questioner is usually one of my f...