Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for February 15, 2025

We did much better than listen. We saw it all!

Was the new part of myself already meant to be a part of me before I found it? Or was it just a generic part of a person waiting to be claimed by whoever got there first?

Was the spider from the meadow?

Seems like the last meadow was always remembered as the best!

I’m glad Ethan’s spell wore off!

Brown recluses can be so much fun…

this hits home, especially now in my life. I miss my 20s. I’m going to be 35 in a week and this is maybe the last possible extension of my youthfulness and even so it’s trying to slow me down. I find myself thinking of all the places I used to live and all the problems that weren’t there in my life that are making it a nightmare nowadays. my mother has declining health conditions, and she is not the same and I have a job which I’m trying not to lose and I’m dealing with old issues from the past that never were fixed and now they’re out of control. my past was very sad, but for some reason it seems so much better than it was when I look at what I have to deal with today. there are so many ways I could have lived it better and achieved more and made every day count.

I love this one. The one time that Marigold is profound, everyone (including Marigold) misses it. You are a comic genius, Dana.

Marigold finally tells a story that is nothing but relatable, everyday good sense and her captive audience can’t be bothered to listen. Curse you Shield of Boringness!

I-is it an EVIL spider! A resentful one, perhaps? coming story arc filled with dread, angst, and many (OH, so many) spiky little legs?

And don’t even get me STARTED on spider toes!

The spider wasn’t really listening, either.

…What? I wasn’t reading. Something about a spider?