Making friends with spiders

Feeling the fear but trying to see around it

I live in an old house with lots of spiders. We have had a turbulent relationship of understanding they mean no harm but still I struggle to welcome them in.

And then it was one day, when I get another rejection email from a job application, that one tips me over the edge. It’s one of those big ones, that move very fast. My daughter spots it first and du…