Beginning with a Hot Grasshopper and Ending in Fire

Two Weeks of Summer

I missed last week’s issue. While there were a number of reasons for this, the ongoing weather might perhaps take a small bit of the blame. It’s been difficult to write—or even to think overmuch—with the heat pressing on day after day. Even the night temperatures have crept upwards, while the air pressure and the UV indices have remained brutally hig…