Adele Ferguson - Some winter survival advice

IT WAS WITH an enormous sigh of relief that I and mine all got though Thanksgiving without any kind of disaster or turmoil.

People complain about January as their low point of the year but I don’t know how many times through the years that if some problem arises, it is on or about Thanksgiving. Two Thanksgivings I spent in the emergency ward waiting for the doctors to get around to patching up my husband who on one occasion fell on the deck and cut his head and on another had an asthma attack that required hospitalization.

It has not been unusual for the weather to be so bad, wind mostly, that...