Sometimes I Think I've Figured

Places Like Hilton Head, With Water Adjacency And Nice Climates, Are In High Demand, And Land Values Are Insane. In The Case Of Hilton Head, Which Was Developed In 1970 On What Had Been A Mosquito- And Alligator-infested Swampy Barrier Island, Land Value Has Leaped From Nearly Zero To Now Unaffordable.

I Remember Three- And Four-week-long Snow Days, And Drifts So Deep A Small Child, Namely Me, Could Get Lost In Them. No Such Winter Exists In The Record, But That's How Ohio Winters Seemed To Me When I Was Little - Silent, Silver, Endless, And Dreamy.

The One Thing I've Discovered About Social Media Is That People Love Answering Questions. In Fact, It Sometimes Feels Like At Any Given Moment, Millions Of People Are Online Who Have Been Waiting For Exactly The Question You Fire Off.

I've Used Twitter Now And Again To Try To Figure Something Out; It's An Amazing Resource. But I Think You Have To Use It Judiciously: It's A Self-selected Group, So It's Important Not To Start Thinking Of It As The Whole World.

I Had Forgotten How Thrilling A Snow Day Is Until My Son Started School, And As Much As He Loves It, He Swoons At The Idea Of A Free Day Arriving Unexpectedly, Laid Out Like A Gift.