The Boston winter can be notoriously brutal. But if you live here long enough, you start to recalibrate, writes. You think of 40 degrees as balmy. You contemplate an iced macchiato in February. And ...

The weather-predicting groundhog celebrity has met two presidents and drinks a life-extending elixir: "Our Phil is like, probably 139 years old," Groundhog Club Inner Circle President Tom Dunkel says.