My daddy likes to say that for somebody who works at a newspaper, I sure don’t know a lick about what’s going on in the world.

I would take that as more of an insult if it weren’t for the fact that when Daddy says “the world,” he mostly just means Pilot. Never mind that I haven’t lived there in almost 25 years. As my daddy sees it, if I don’t keep up with what’s going on in my hometown, then I’m missing out on something big.

Although I don’t dare say so in front of my daddy, I wonder to myself what I could possibly be missing out on in Pilot, which isn’t even a town, just a green sign and a country store. It’s not even on the map, kind of like Lizard Lick. And who’s ever heard of Lizard Lick?

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