"Stealing Silk" is, and remains, an inside joke – it represents the meeting of two intellectual soul-mates.  I have committed to write the true stealing silk vignette, but to do so is difficult.  I find similar difficulty in expressing the joy I had in learning to fly, observing the birth of my son,  expressing the feelings of romantic love… all without breaking into poetry or metaphor – which, by the way, is not my strong suit.  Until then, my ode to this "Clan of Two" will sit silently at the top of this site, disguised as a title…

It should be pointed out that the other One in the Clan of Two is Patti.  She is the one responsible for this site’s layout, artwork, the push it took to get me to put these stories down in writing and – most of all – the word "Potlicker!"

Interestingly enough, there really are some silk stealers out there…

Silk feeding as an alternative foraging tactic in a kleptoparasitic spider under seasonally changing environments…