COOL AND WET
It has been a long time since I felt like writing anything and I am blaming it on the heat. My brain is in slo-mo and I find it doesn't work well when I'm trying to cope with heat that extends through the wee hours of the night here in Texas. I didn't worry about the heat much when I was growing up because it was just part of life, but now we step out of our air-conditioned homes into the sweltering heat and our bodies get a shock. Then we get into our car which is blazing hot inside even if it's been in the garage, and it takes a good while to cool that off so by the time it's cool, it's time to get out and go in to the store or wherever. If you go to the movies it's a good idea to take a sweater because you'll get icicles on your nose in most of them, that is, if you can find a movie theater that is open now. I remember some particularly hot summer nights when I put my pillow on the window sill,(we had screened windows), and tried to get what tiny re...