Winter is fast approaching and it is getting really, really cold out there.

Nothing burns like the cold.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

Winter comes fast on the lazy

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

It's going to be a cold and snowy winter throughout the Maritimes,