A&E

If you have never heard of Katniss Everdeen, you soon will. She is the strong young, warrior woman who volunteers for the Hunger Games to save her younger sister from this annual battle to the death against other “tributes” (contestants) from the twelve districts. This takes place in a future when the Capital’s forces keep tight control to prevent the rebellion that occurred in North America 70 years earlier.

You may not have noticed it yet, but after a decade-long run,

Some of us suffer harder than others through our long winter with short days, extra grayness and the absence of the sound of a crack of the bat hitting a baseball.

by Lynda Hopkins