If you can't beat em join em.  That's the way this Winter is going for most of us around here in New England.  When cold -- skate, when snowy -- stud up and ride bikes, when blizzard -- cross country ski.  Or, pack up and go to Florida. 

Special thanks to cousin Myles Heffernan and his band Howard -- a rising sensation in NYC.  This song, Falling, was just highlighted on NPR's All Songs Considered.