Where is paradise? To be precise, there is a Paradise, Michigan, 315 miles as the crow flies at the eastern end of Lake Superior. Actually, the entire region of the Upper Great Lakes is paradise. You live in paradise.

Sometimes it doesn’t seem like it, though. It was 42 degrees in Two Harbors the morning I started writing this. Yes, we have cloudy days. Yes, it reaches 80 humid degrees. And yes, it still snows in winter — hopefully.

However, that is not what is happening in the rest of the world. We are shielded by our location in the center of the continent and the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior.

Much of the rest of the world is seeing searing heat. France this year experienced its warmest summer in recorded history. So did Ireland, the UK, China, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Sou

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