Texas Heat: If You Can’t Beat It, Join It

"As kids, we all played in the sprinkler in the summer heat. As adults, why not continue the tradition?"

“Well, I wouldn't say that really cooled anyone off,” my wife Mara laughs as she and I gather with our neighbors Greg and Erica on the patio. A sheen of sweat is quickly replacing water droplets on our bare skin.“Yeah,...

It was the 7th of August and I was with my husband. We had been invited to a barbeque by one of my husband’s workmates. I had never met Mathew or his wife. But my husband said they were both...