Winter is a rough season. It starts out all fun and games with snowball fights, making snowmen and winter season sports such as snowboarding and sledding.

But then it does the unthinkable and gets really nasty for the rest of the population whom have jobs and don’t have time for snow to put an entire city on delay.

Why must winter be such a cruel mistress? Not only has Park University and the surrounding Kansas City area have been affected harshly by her this year but so has the rest of the country.

On a recent road trip I saw firsthand what Mistress Winter had to offer. Through the Missouri part of my cross-country escapade it seemed Kansas City was hit the hardest and winter seemed to lose steam in the St. Louis area.

But shortly after Missouri came Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, which like the St. Louis, didn’t have any of the ice and snow, which shut down Kansas City for three days.

The real test of my sisters driving ability came just outside Erie, Penn. The ice and snow I was so happy to have not seen was ever present. There was only about a mile of visibility and the amount of ice on the roads made a Jameson on the rocks look lacking.

In the shortest terms possible: Winter sucks and I’m over it.

I can’t wait for the warmth of spring and the cool rains which come with it. My senses are tingling for the smell of barbeque and the sounds of ice tinkling in my iced tea glass. So in the near future of the snowpocalypse which is still ransacking the country, you can find me somewhere under the blankets of my bed binge watching Netflix and dreaming of Miami Beach.

See you in spring.