“Life with Lenora” is a weekly series capturing the experiences and occasional musings of our opinion editor. This week, I survived ice armageddon. This is a comfort and privilege I do not take for granted, especially since most of Oxford remains battered by the ice and cold. Before that, however, I filmed an ice apocalypse makeup tutorial with 13 percent battery left on my iPhone. It often seems as if everyone wants to live in a village but no one wants to be the villager.