My birthday is in the middle of November, and there have always been things I liked about that, and others I didn’t. When I was a kid, the first snow of the winter sometimes happened by November 14th. In fact, I had a standing bet with my best friend. Her birthday was at the end of the month, and I bet her we’d see snowflakes by mine, and she bet it would happen closer to hers.The anticipation was exciting, even when the snow didn’t quite make it in time for me to win. I love