Spider Medicine was published in Nature and Health magazine, April 2009. The medicine spider gave me was the beginnings of my decision to quit my life-as-it-was and write my first novel.
I was strolling to work on a clear blue morning entertaining the idea of a career change when out of nowhere a shiny black spider surfed the wind toward me and landed on my chest. It had come straight at me, teetering in the air like a light plane over a windy runway. I knew it was meant for me. And I kinda wished it had’ve been a butterfly… Read in full
