
It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. « How was the botanic garden? » I ask him. « It was okay. It was just too hot, » he tells me. I didn’t expect us to spend so much of our son’s first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat.
As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. « Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures up to 110 [degrees Fahrenheit] expected, » my weather app warns me. « Stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of …