Is Something Burning? Part 1 – A Whistle is Not An Alarm

A Survival Guide for the Hyper Focused

Once I read through a house catching on fire.

Seriously.

After it was all over, and I made a comment that indicated that I’d totally missed the guys setting the sawdust pile in the attached garage on fire, my hostess calmly said she was glad to know about this superpower of mine. Now she knew that should the place ever catch on fire again, she needed to slap me on the shoulder as she ran by with the kids.

I suspect I am not the only reader capable of phenome...