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Growing up, there was nothing I loved more than the feel of warm sunshine on my face. I’d lounge by the pool all day in the summer, just soaking it up.
But now I live in Arizona.
Temperatures reach 110° or hotter here, regularly, all summer long. By late April, if we’re lucky, it’s only starting to get to the point where it’s too hot to do anything outside.
By mid-May, it’s sweltering. Every professional woman in Arizona dreads this time of year. You might think, “What’s the big deal? You go from your air-conditioned car to your air-conditioned office.” But you don’t know our pain until you have made the 2-minute walk from your car into your office, only to get stuck to the asphalt 3 times because your heels are melting into the ground.
Seriously, I have never been more thankful for Zoom meetings. Why did it take us this long to start using Zoom?
All of those fun things people do in the summer? Ha — not in Arizona!
Water balloon fights? Not unless you want to clean melted rubber from your grass. Swimming? Only after dark, when you can finally walk barefoot without burning your toe prints off. We do barbecue — but only because it keeps the heat outside.
The one thing Arizonans have to look forward to is monsoon season. That’s when it rains for 15 minutes and 20,000 people post about it on Facebook.
Historically, monsoon season starts around June 15th. But it’s July now and we haven’t…
