I am fearful, hear me cluck.

Last year on Common Fire we had coyotes running around outside out house at night, making all kinds of frightful noises. They scared me. They really did. I always thought that the coyotes were going to eat someone, even though I was assured this would not happen. It still scared me. It still does, actually... the memory of them waking me at night and me shaking alone in my bed as I would sit up and watch them run in the yard below. Coyotes, wolves and large dogs are often what my nightmares consist of. It's slightly pathetic, even sad... I know.

I am also afraid of monkeys. Also rather sad and pathetic. Did anyone hear the story a few months back about a monkey gone crazy at a zoo and attack this man and ate off his nose and thumb... the thought alone of a monkey near me makes me want to curl up in a ball on the purple rug and cry. Monkeys also frequent my nghtmares... what can I do?

I have a fear of deep water... no, more like just drowning in general. I liked to swim as a kid, but I was never very good. Last summer I enjoyed swimming across the lake with Andrea... but I'd usually get half way across, and start to get a little tired and I'd start breathing in quick gasps of air, like hyperventualting... More afraid that all of a sudden my body would just say, "nope, I'm done swimming" and I would sink 20 feet to the bottom and die, and no one would ever know. Terrible.... I am all too aware.