By Molly Snyder Senior Writer Published Dec 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM

The subject of ski masks and why I’m not wearing one keeps coming up. It all began a week or so ago when temperatures first started to really get mean, and after walking just a few blocks to a coffee shop, my face was so frozen I looked like I got a bundle of botched Botox injections.

Since then, I remarked to a few dozen more people -- including Kramp and Alder during our Heat Index segment last week -- that I don’t understand why more Milwaukeeans, including myself, don’t wear ski masks in winter.

They make perfect sense for the frosty season and yet, I never see anyone wearing one who’s not a toddler, a snowmobiler, a superhero or a television robber or rapist. (Maybe real-life robbers and rapists wear ski masks, I do not know for certain because, luckily, I have never seen one in action.)

This is where you come in, knitters. Is there -- or could there be -- such a thing as a cute ski mask, or is this an oxymoron? Are they inherently creepy? Furthermore, can a person wear one without looking like they’re on the verge of  committing a felony? I really want to rock one, but I'm not sure I can really pull it off.

Damn, it’s cold out there, Milwaukee.


Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.

Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.