When I was pregnant with my daughter, I read the bestseller “What to Expect When You are Expecting” until I knew each of the “nine month” descriptions word for word. The dogeared copy was my only link to the truth that things that I couldn’t watch from the outside were actually changing on the inside. …
Tag Archive: fear
Oct 17 2009
There’s a Spider in My Bathroom
If a spider wants to live in my backyard, he is free to build a townhouse and put in his own swimming pool, for all that it matters to me. But, the inside of my house is off limits to anyone with eight legs. The conflict that arises in me when a spider comes scrambling …


