I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes (but my son does!)

from e-mail dated Tuesday, November 6, 2007

hello madre!

i've gotten a few of your letters now. thanks so much! i hope you like the funny picture of the hercules beetles on my face; dad will like it more than you, i'm sure. haha.

from e-mail dated Tuesday, July 15, 2008 (these are pics of fried tarantulas--yummy!)

one funny thing this week. i ate one of the spiders already. no picture proof yet, so uncle erik will be hard pressed to believe it, but it actually wasn't that bad. i prefer it to the crickets. they're all scratchy and stuff, but the spider was easy. i didn't have any more than a five second pause of anxiety or pretentiousness; i think there may be something the matter with me, cuz it was big and i don't even care. :)