There was a fly in my carport yesterday. This is the first buggy critter I’ve seen in a couple months, and I’m just not ready for them to come back. There are a lot of bugs here in North Carolina, and most of them seem to like me far more than I like them. It…
When I was little, my Mom would read aloud a picture book titled, Night Noises and Other Mole and Troll Stories. It was one of my favorites because Mom always did Troll’s voice with the perfect amount of frenzied hysteria. In the story “Night Noises,” Troll gets irrationally scared at the chirping of crickets and…