A Houston summer yawned before us. I hatched a plan. (Essay)

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Bellaire High School teacher Elizabeth Chapman writes on her plans to spend summer...

With the arrival of June, the time had come for me to own up to the fact that I had planned nothing for my family to do this summer. No travel, no camps, no lessons: just months of Houston’s thick, muggy weather, heat rippling off the concrete, stretching into August.

“‘We’ as in ‘you and the kids?’” he asked. And that is how my husband discovered a passion for staying in the air conditioning and doing the dishes. I got the baby down for a nap and settled my daughter in front of her favorite Disney Plus shark documentary. I snapped the battery into the power drill and instantly felt a surge; I was a woman of power and strength.

I braced myself, physically and mentally, for the tantrum that would ensue when I picked her up and returned her to the living room, and then I paused; sure, the process would be even longer and more complicated with her beside me, but maybe it was important for my daughter to learn how to grow into a woman of power and strength.“OK, you can help.” She handed me washers and nuts, spun the hex key around to tighten the bolts, held the pieces level, pressed the button on the drill.

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