Add ti CALIFORNIA SUMMERS I lived three summers, age 3 to nearly 6, in northern California. This is how I remember it. Summer heat-- sweet relief in darkened hall beneath the fan, the rumbling wind, the storm that blew the cool all through the house… I’d catch a chill and die, they claimed. Disbelieving, driven out to play, I’d wait another chance… Summer feet-- freed from socks and keds not always sufficiently aware of bees among the clovers growing green in golden lawn… Dancing barefoot over... Sign in to see full entry.