This summer seems to bring climate change and global warming more into our everyday reality as it’s hotter than ever and the air quality is worse than ever in the Northeast and all over. I have asthma so every morning now I have to check the air quality in my area and if unhealthy I keep my windows closed, turn on a.c. (which I’m blessed to have) and sometimes fans as well. With global warming and hotter summers, all will have to have a.c. very soon as our planet heats up or we will have people suffering from heat exhaustion and heat stroke and many dying as a result. I don’t like living in a bubble, but we are left with no choice. When I go outside I wear a mask to help protect me from breathing in the poor quality of the air. Then I check the local weather. If a heat alert, I may not go out or if I do go out, I don’t stay outside for long. The air and the weather were never such a prominent part of my everyday life; things have changed a lot this summer! I no longer can go out without checking on air and heat outside, no longer can take longer walks. I’m lucky if the air is okay for me to take a short walk and lucky if the temperature is low enough to walk outside without getting heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Things have surely changed for all of us.