Cool Down, Alarmists . . . It’s Just Hot In The Desert In The Summer
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto,” said one of the two women seated in front of me in the shuttle van at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport some while ago. Do I recall they were from New Jersey? It was the customary misquotation of actress Judy Garland noticing that something’s really different in the Land of Oz. I looked up from my book. Outside the van window were cactuses in airport planters. No surprise to me, but a different sight to the majority of U.S. residents, from cooler territories. Living in the lower desert in summer isn’t the life most people are used to. When I walk home from daily morning Mass at…Continue Reading