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From Me To You . . . June 2026
Phoenix in June is not a place you go outside voluntarily. The sun is not shining so much as it is beating us into a pulp, and when temps climb over a hundred by breakfast you need to adapt. Quickly.
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Cars are a necessity and a war zone rolled into one. The wheel is so hot some people use oven gloves to steer, the seat belt buckle will brand you, and I always keep towels handy to use as a barrier between the scorching hot seats and bare legs. The stretch of parking lot between your car and the grocery store entrance is, and I say this with full sincerity, a legitimate health hazard. Leaving the house twice in one day is a rookie error and nobody makes it past their first summer doing that.
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So we stay inside. And I would like to argue that we have become extraordinarily good at it.
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I know this because I have lived it. Our first summer here I had four children under the age of ten, a husband who traveled for work, and a Little Tikes playground in the backyard that was approximately the temperature of the surface of the sun by eight in the morning. Something had to give. So I did what any reasonable mother at the end of her rope would do.
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I dismantled the entire thing, slide and climbing frame included, and moved it into the formal living room.
The children were thrilled. My husband was horrified. The living room, for the record, survived.
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That same summer, my kids discovered that our floor plan made a remarkably efficient loop. Kitchen to den to dining room and back to the kitchen again. Perfect, it turned out, for indoor bike racing. We had a formal living room with a playground in it, and a cycling circuit running through the rest of the house. Everyone was entertained and nobody had heatstroke. I am choosing to call that a win.
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When the rest of the country looks at temps over 110º and shudders at the impossibility of life in a broiler, we shrug. What they don’t realize is that we are inside with the blinds drawn, the ceiling fan on, and if necessary, a slide in the living room.
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Catherine Uretsky
Editor in Chief, Estrella Publishing