Commentator Jean Zimmer pulls off Winter, Aunt Margie’s way by: a Guest Commentator December 20, 2013 http://nepr.legacy.files.s3.amazonaws.com/Commentary_12_20_13_Zimmer.wavWe’re coming up on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. Commentator Jean Zimmer, who writes and lives in Northampton, Mass., says like the planet, she had been tipping toward darkness recently.