The things as far back as I can remember. Although I do not relate these things in my stories, I draw on them for ideas. Several of your stories have references to North Carolina. I sometimes use North Carolina as a setting because it has interesting areas. Further, I can create a town, in interesting places that are subject to unusual happenings such as hurricanes, tornados and tidal waves.
Rural areas lie close to cities, and the temperature varies from ices to torrid.
Although I was born in North Carolina, my parents moved to Washington, D.C. before I was school age. I grew up there. I am in the middle, the second of three children. My parents were teachers. I graduated magna cum laude from Howard University.