Do you feel it yet? Is the desire to hole up indoors for the long and cold winter months creeping up on you? I feel it.

I’m sure not everyone gets hermit crab syndrome in the winter, but I know that I do. As I’m typing, it’s a brisk 18 degrees outside. Weather.com has become my trusty sidekick lately, as I check it obsessively, hoping and praying for a sudden warm spell so that I might run out to the bank or post office.

My most recent view of my local weather website informs me that it...