Tag: Air Conditioning

  • Fireflies and Fla-Vor-Ice: 5 Things to Love About Summer in the South

    Fireflies and Fla-Vor-Ice: 5 Things to Love About Summer in the South

    As a heat wave settles over New York City and I settle into my fifth consecutive summer sans air conditioning, I find myself reminiscing about my favorite things about summer in the South. While Zelda’s right, there are a lot of things to love about summer in the city (ready access to ice cream being…

  • On Air Conditioning

    On Air Conditioning

    Brooklyn, July 2013, 3 a.m.: I’m lying on the floor of my bedroom in nothing but my underwear and a sports bra holding a fan aloft over my face in an attempt to find some form of relief from the heat. I’m no stranger to heat: I grew up in heat worse than this, at…