Why Do You Have Snakes In Your Life?

[psychocircus]

There's pictures of me when I was 3 touching a giant Burmese python.

When I was around seven years old my dad took me to a reptile show where I got to hold a variety of small snakes. The only one I distinctly remember was a corn snake.

When I was probably nine or ten we went to a pet store and they had a ribbon snake that I just HAD to have. My mom has always had a phobia of snakes, but she now tells me she allowed me to get it because I never asked for anything.

All these things probably had an impact on me being interested in snakes. What keeps me interested? The variety, my fascination with the giants, and my fascination with the venomous.