About Charlie English: Charles Dewie English was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago White Sox, New York Giants.
Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.
In the nineteenth century, Fritjof Nansen wrote that skiing washes civilization clean from our minds by dint of its exhilarating physicality. By extension, I believe that snow helps strip away the things that don't matter. It leaves us thinking of li...