Fly

About the Book

From where do flies come? What do they eat? Why do they buzz in the ears and noses of those just nicely settled in for a nap? What do they do for entertainment besides buzzing around heads? Do they rent videos of that 1958 movie The Fly? Do they eat popcorn while they watch it? How many flies can one kernel of popcorn feed? Thankfully, Fly addresses exactly zero of the above matters, none of which contain much in the line of pitch or moment. Fly invites the reader to view the mundane and seemingly inconsequential from a different perspective. The book offers suggestion of what can be learned if we pause to consider what inspirational considerations may be learned from musca domestica, the common housefly.

About the Author

The author lives near Creemore, Ontario, where he shares the old farmstead with livestock such as raccoons, skunks, and flies—Lots and lots of flies. Not as many, it will be understood, as those on the Old Order Mennonite farm where his father grew up. With all those nice warm piles of manure basking in the summer sun, there were nearly as many flies as Brubacher children. That be a lot! And not just any old flies—those were Mennonite flies! Very scary. Maybe they even wore black hats! But I digress. About the author, he is a shoemaker by trade in Collingwood, Ontario, and looks after bad feet there. On nice days, he leaves the door open, and in come the flies.