Different? Or the same?

Maybe it’s that we’re all paying closer attention because, you know. Still, I keep having conversations in which this winter’s rain is said to be coming down harder than normal, or thicker than normal, or with more to-the-point efficiency and less of that familiar lingering ambivalence. Well, Slog?

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...