By Melody Nestor
Brrr! It’s cold and damp outside. Time to bundle up. Find the hats and mittens. And light the fire or turn up the heat, well at least some of the time. Heat, fire – it warms us, increasing “the happiness factor” in our lives as our bodies become comfortable, and our minds relax. But “Wait,” the Puritan in us may warn, “heat is expensive.”
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