Nature’s Classroom

but I wasn’t. I should have moped, but I didn’t. I continued sipping my hot chocolate as though nothing had happened, staring expectantly through the foggy window for signs of that magical swoosh of green, the Aurora Borealis. Worried about my lack of reaction to the bad news, my husband proceeded to console me by saying that he was hopeful the storm would not set in the next day. I cheerfully told him that we should turn back as advised, halfway into our road-trip around Iceland—the trip I had meticulously planned, the trip