The dog days of summer arrive in August. They are long, hot, sticky, muggy, uncomfortable, and miserable days. A time when summer exerts full force on all creatures, great and small, plants, and psyches. They are sultry exhausting days where finding respite from “them barking dogs” drive behavior. The result of this oppressive heat? Drought, lethargy, fever, unexpected thunderstorms, bad luck, and mad men. What to make of these August dog days? How did this all begin? Of co