There is a blooming winter honeysuckle on Melrose at Republican. (It looks like this.) If you bend to smell it, it will change your day for the better. Don’t be scared inside by this weather. There are winter plants to be loved out there.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...