An Ode to Central Air Conditioning

It has changed my life

Photo by Dias on Unsplash

(I have no idea why this picture came up when I was looking under “central air conditioning.” But I guess it fits my feeling of celebration.)

When I was growing up in the Stone Age in upstate New York, we didn’t have any air conditioners. In order to cool off in the hot, muggy weather, we could escape to the movies for a couple of hours, but…