When I was growing up in the northeast, my family didn’t have mechanical air conditioning. Our air conditioning was opening the windows. Oh, sure, there were occasional straight-from-Hades days, but for the most part, temperatures weren’t horrible. Nights usually cooled down into the 60s. I used to love summer. It’s been in the middle to high 90s here in the Richmond, Virginia area for a while. As I’m writing this, it’s 99 degrees, and adding the oppressive humidity around ce

Happy 4th of July weekend to all of you who live in the United States. Our country has managed to make it to 244. She is still an infant compared to many other countries in the world. England, the place we declared to be independent of in 1776, is around 1,100 years-old. Are we going through major growing pains? You bet we are. We’re finally getting racism out in the open. We’re learning to live with a pandemic in our midst. The medical community still has no idea how to cure