Snow White

for an entire week! Filled with snow cream, sledding, and binge-watching shows with puzzles. What a week it was! During my snow week, one of my favorite things to do was make snow cream! The complete deliciousness of this cream is unbelievable! The milk, sugar, and vanilla together make a dreamy flavor. The one problem is, snow cream is not something you can just want and get. Snow cream is an amazing treat to go along with all the snow! Later on, the cold, wet snow froze my friend Libby and…

More than 150 years ago, the invention of the camera, a now every day item, was made and its later counterparts would be the technology to predict deadly catastrophes and save millions of people. This modern technology is known as remote sensing. The term “remote sensing” was used first by Evelyn Pruitt of the U.S. Office of Naval Research in the 1950s. It is “commonly used to describe science-and art-of identifying, observing, and measuring an object without coming into direct contact with it”…

Close your eyes and imagine. Imagine a small boy wearing a small blue winter coat, standing, at the top of a peak reaching 14,114 ft into the sky. Now imagine that small boy peer over the edge of a cliff who knows how high. Imagine this boy seeing this and being afraid, being afraid he’d fall. Imagine that this fear prompted that little kid to lay down and stare over the edge of that cliff until the fears overtook him too much and he ran away from the deadly edge. Fears can come from anywhere,…

A gentle breeze on a crisp fall morning passes through the windows in the kitchen. The wind blows the chimes on the porch and they play a beautiful melody. Off in the distance, the first snow storm of winter begins to brew. Many every day happenings, such as these, often help us to remember or feel a loved one’s presence. This presence in particular, is one of someone that is no longer living. “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep,” argues that a person doesn’t really disappear from the world after…

No Barriers Reflection Imagine every sport you love playing being ripped away from you. One day, you’re able to hike up mountains to see a breathtaking view, and the next you can’t see two inches in front of you. This is exactly what happened to Erik Weihenmayer right before his first year of high school. Although he didn’t go blind out of the blue, it was still as if the Earth had shifted from right beneath him. Erik always new his juvenile retinoschisis would one day claim his vision, but…

Imagine someone pushes a snowball down a hill as it rolls down the steep hill someone else give it an extra push. Who's fault is it when the snowball, massive in size, hits a pedestrian and injures them? The one who initially pushed the snowball down the hill or the one who gave it the extra push? This is what happens in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the witches gave the initial push to Macbeth while Lady Macbeth gave an extra push all leading to the murder of many. Before all of this,…

With the temperatures falling, you're most likely searching for an activity for the entire family. Ice skating is a terrific way to get much-needed exercise in the winter when it's too cold to play outside. Whether you're an adult skating after a long absense or lacing up skates on your children for the first time, there are ways you can avoid injury on the ice. When it's your first time skating, you should choose figure skates over hockey skates. The blades on figure skates are longer and…

circular device. Her finger grazes the top of the device, silently noting how cold it is, but she tears her eyes away a moment—just to catch a glimmer of the outside world through the long over arching window in her bedroom— to watch the falling white snowflakes coat the world in a blanket of perfection,…

ourselves, trends we follow, and our behavior are derived from our culture. In this way, the misunderstood Minnesotan culture has impacted my perception, personality, and habits. For anyone unaccustomed to the weather of Minnesota, my perception of snow and cold weather must seem quite bizarre. While non-natives bury themselves beneath layers of blankets when the temperature drops below freezing, I pull on my jean shorts and flip flops in an attempt to wring every last drop…

Lutena was strolling through the bushy terrain, when she heard a rustle among the trees. She started making her footsteps light, careful for an animal and quiet for an intruder. Then all of a sudden Jason jumped out with warning. “Look out!” he shouted. Lutena jumped and turned around and gasped all at once. “Don’t ever do that again!” She slapped him on the arm. Jason flinched. “Hey, it’s not my fault you’re too fun to scare.” “Rude,” Lutena responded. Today they were in the forest to cut…