We stand on the floor-level hearth and enjoy basking in the warmth. When our front sides get sufficiently toasty, we turn around and toast our other sides.

Cold but beautiful.

It’s tornado season here in the USA. That’s the trouble with spring: It brings us tornadoes. There’s a wide swath of the continent that’s called Tornado Alley, because that’s the chunk of the country where tornadoes are most frequent. We’re in it. It’s so weird:…