For months I have been answering the question, "Aren't you afraid of winter?" by saying that I am not scared of what I don’t know. I have discovered, while that may be technically true, there is a caveat. One day I had to drive with some snow on the ground. It was icy in spots. In my mind I kept repeating every piece of winter driving advice I have gotten. The most common being, “Slow down and then slow down some more.” I was driving slow. 20 in a 40mph zone. Cars were passing me giving me dirty looks, probably thinking, “Over cautious California driver!”
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yvonne
11/23/2014 06:47:09 am
I remember our first snow "storm" in St. Louis. Eph rushed to the school to pick up the boys and everyone was wondering why he was getting them so early. We were terrified it would snow so much they would be stuck at school because we wouldn't be able to get to them. I think he ended up driving in the heaviest of it because we didn't wait until later (or until the school called to let us know it was time to close due to the weather)!
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Michelle Webber is a California native, and a minister in the United Church of Christ. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay area her whole life, in Richmond, Albany, El Cerrito, Los Altos, and San Jose. She has served as the Associate Minister at Foothills Congregational Church in Los Altos. She is currently the solo pastor of First Congregational UCC, in Moorhead, MN Archives
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