Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

As a kid, I used to love snow days off from school.

You’d go to bed, knowing the forecast called for some heavy snow, but knowing that – all too often – the local school district would still have school, and you’d be stuck trudging down to the bus stop the next day anyway.

But every once in a while, you’d get up early to get ready for school, and the scroll along the bottom of the local news broadcast on television listed your school district as being “closed”.

That’s when the celebrations began.

While your parents muttered under their breath...