It’s been hot. Not terribly scorching, but hot. I don’t know that we’ve hit a true 100 degrees on the Island this year, but we’ve gotten up there. It’s certainly steamy compared to last summer, where we had three straight months of a perfect 68to 79 degrees.

And heat tends to flare up our tempers a bit. Things we might usually let roll down our sweaty backs come into a sharper focus when Earth seems to veer from its orbit, closer to the sun than it needs to be.