Gunfire. Smoke. Sounds of screaming men. A fierce battle is underway. Or, is it? Welcome to the fascinating world of modern-day time...

Snow swirls hypnotically across the windshield as we pick our way through Crawford Notch. And it strikes me... Isn't it odd that we never...

It seems silly, composing this post when the thermometer recently soared above 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Yet the next “weather-alert,”...