My father was the calm before my mother's storm. We kids never knew what was coming from my mother if he stepped out of the way.

All the news was saying that the ascensions were abductions, then hoaxes, then hallucinations when one man rose into the sky as he was walking right downtown on main street in the middle of the day and people swore they saw him sucked right up into the sky in front of them.

Nobody quite believed the believers and you never knew who you could trust to tell the truth. So my father had his own theory that had something to do with spots on the earth that were losing gravity.