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Mar.30.2013
Photo: Wikipedia page for "Spiderman." From The Amazing Spider-Man #547 (March 2008); Art by Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines
A very cool entry about a missing house spider on Michael Seidel's blog amused me to no end, as I thought I was the only one with an odd connection to a...
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Mar.27.2013
Dom has disappeared. Dom - Dominique - is the spider that lives in the corner of my shower.
He wasn't there this morning. His web was present but he wasn't.
I looked around the stall for him. I half expected him to go up my leg, land on my shoulder or tickle a butt cheek and...
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Mar.20.2013
My first notice a spider had moved into my shower's corner were all the moving boxes. He'd unpacked them and dumped them onto the floor. Seeing me stare at them, he hurried up his web to chat.
"Hi. I'm Dominique. Everyone calls me Dom, Dom the daddy long legs. Dom...
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Aug.07.2012
I loved E.B. White’s, “Charlotte’s Web” as a child so I decided recently to rent the movie to share with my four-year-old son. Unlike today’s action-packed, fast-moving, vibrantly colored 3-D animation, the movie’s colors were muted and grainy and slowly sung songs filled a lot of the scenes...
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Sep.26.2011
The electricity went out about 1:00 a.m. I awoke to deafening silence and stillness. Not a sound could be heard anywhere. No bahama fans were whirring. No lights from electronics were glowing. No night lights were shining. The glow from the streetlight in the ...
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Jun.10.2011
You might be sitting there, wondering if perhaps skunks eat berries....
Let me just explain, for those of you who might not know or who have forgotten: I not only have a small mulberry tree growing out back, right next to my deck, that is now tall enough, and eager enough, to come inside my...
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Apr.08.2011
I love spiders, the idea of spiders, and their silken threads weaving webs. That their creations are often meant to destroy is what makes it a question of evolution or, indeed, to question nature itself. The immediate impetus for these reflections is a series of photographs of trees covered...
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Sep.21.2010
In the thermosat at the house I grew up in there lay a dead squashed spider..below the ole thermostat was a note..'put another sweater on..mom' . The summer of 2008, I sit on the floor with boxes about and dishes that were stories given to others during their life moments. I look at the stickers my...
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Jul.30.2010
My first memory is of a spider. In the memory, it’s sunset in the summertime. I’m not sure I’d ever been up that late: Michigan sits on the edge of the Eastern Time zone, so the sky in summer remains light until nearly ten o’clock. In the memory, I am standing on my big girl bed in the...
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May.04.2010
A weary beginning to the day. Not a too sound night. Asleep with a low lamp on. Woken by the sound of a clickity-buzz and then a soft landing right next to my ear. I quickly sit up, look to find a cricket that managed to miss my head by millimeters. He flew into the pillow beside me and was nestled...
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