It's snowing today. The kind of steady, quiet snow that doesn’t announce itself with drama. One minute, the world is the same familiar gray; the next, it’s wearing a brand-new coat like it got up early and decided to reinvent itself before anyone else woke up. I stood at the window with my coffee, watching the flakes fall in that hypnotic way they do, and I had the same thought I always have on the first real snow of the season: How can something look so different in such a s