Contributed Photo / Marla Cilley of Brevard, North Carolina., is known as the FlyLady.In another era, Marla Cilley, aka the FlyLady, might have been a high school home economics teacher.
But in 2020, the Brevard, North Carolina, grandmother and native Tennessean is a best-selling author and home-efficiency expert who has more than 1 million social media followers.
On a recent morning, before one of her popular Facebook Live broadcasts, the FlyLady sipped coffee on her front porch and reflected on the upheaval at hand.
Ms. Cilley is called the FlyLady because she enjoys teaching people how to fly fish. She has also been a county commissioner, a lumber yard worker, and a bookkeeper at a furniture store. So, she’s seen a thing or two.
“I think the good Lord is trying to teach us a few things,” she said of the coronavirus, as birds chirped in the background.