Resident Reporter: Resurrection

In retrospect, it may have been a mistake to hustle up Fair Oaks early Monday morning to talk to Pastor John McCall while cultivating a cozy internal temperature of 103 degrees.

I'm told today is Thursday. Every moment since Monday afternoon has been a fevered blur and my every slow-stewed sinew aches. In a typical year, only one major malady strikes, but this is like the fourth time since last summer. Janette Williams suggests my plague runs deep and only goes dormant from time to time. But she's Scottish and thus holds many strange, pagan beliefs.

When she stands in as editor, Janette enforces deadlines with cautionary tales of the Kelpie, a "treacherous water-devil who lurks in lakes and rivers."