Stuck in snow

Michael S. Rosenwald (Washington Post): At 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, I left my house in Germantown to pick up our dog at doggy day care. Five hours and 10 minutes later, we're sitting, Andy and me, in the parking lot of a sold-out hotel, unable to get back home. We're five miles away.

Andy stares out the window, a hopeless little white Schnoodle keeping his hopeless father company in a Toyota minivan. We watch the lights in the hotel rooms flicker off. I shut off my car lights, tilt the seat back, preparing for a slumber that never comes.

-eddie