Have you ever experienced a moment where it seems time has slowed down and it feels like you have enough time to change what is about to happen but your body just won't react fast enough? These moments seem to happen as something bad is going to happen. I remember one of these moments occurring just before I fell off my bike once. It is not a great feeling when you feel like you have the ability to change the outcome but your body isn't reacting as fast as your mind. It isn't really fair. Read this short story for an insight to a powerful message that a lot of lose sight of sometimes.

What happened was this: I packed every last inch of my earthly belongings into a U-Haul, which my now-fiancee and then-boyfriend was to drive halfway down the east coast. I was going to follow behind in my own car, with two appropriately sedated cats, all the way from Somewhere, New York, down to Nowhere, North Carolina...

Clean up is basic entomological collecting 101, with the handy circular file as the final resting ground for the unsmashed remains of our jillion eyed nemesis, while our abode is awash in the bouquet of pine disinfectant, so much better than the eye watering and lung closing pesticides all derived from Faustian deals enriching less than scrupulous bug haters from the McCarthy era.