We don't want to make our new squirrel mascot, Morrison, green with envy (we like his brown coat), but we've been keeping a keen eye on a certain groundhog in a certain town in Pennsylvania. Between sudden blizzards and bursts of freezing-cold sunshine, this has been a deeply strange winter, and we're sure hoping that little critter doesn't see his shadow on February 2. If we end up with six more weeks of winter, at least we have a new season of Lost to watch on TV — and J. Wood's fantastically insightful blog posts to guide us! Or perhaps we'll savor our signed first editions of Calvin Trillin's Deciding the Next Decider and Walter Mosley's The Right Mistake. If it gets too cold again, we can wrap ourselves in original essays by Lauren Groff (Delicate Edible Birds), Dacher Keltner (Born to Be Good), and Jonathan Barnes (The Domino Men) — after we've read them, of course — and warm our feet over toasty Q&As from Erica Bauermeister (The School of Essential Ingredients) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (The Pluto Files). If things get too dark and gloomy, we have guest bloggers Jonah Lehrer (How We Decide) and Matt Love (Citadel of the Spirit) to light our way. Then again, if we get an early groundhog reprieve, we'll do exactly the same things — only in shorts and T-shirts, sitting out in the sun, with huge smiles on our faces.
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