Austin, again as you know, isn't typically a winter wonderland, much less an ice rink, so the de-icing equipment and fluid is not the same as say, Detroit. To put it in perspective, we used more de-icing fluid on your flight than we did for the entire year at (Austin) in 2004.

Coal isn't going away. Neither is natural gas. But we can become less dependent on them.

They can put Alice on an ice rink, and they might, say, have Alice twirl, jump or do a triple flip.

He's preparing himself mentally off the ice before he comes to the rink, and he's been our best player on the ice.

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.

Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.

Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor.

In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .

But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.

I feel the atmosphere inside the ice rink was going up, so it was like a stone fell off my shoulders when we finished. It was just more concentration on the skating. Maybe that looks like I am really nervous, but it is not that.