Columns share an author’s personal perspective. I have spent the majority of my adult life avoiding snow. I have spent the majority of my adult life avoiding snow because I learned everything I ever wanted to know about the cold, wet, powdery stuff when I was a youth growing up in western Kansas. Snow was a fixture during the winter months growing up. Along with the chill-you-to-the-bone wind, there were many school days spent sloshing through the mounds of snow piled up along the