Sharing a body of water with a shark is my most enduring phobia, second only to having pictures of me in a wetsuit published in a national magazine. So naturally, when offered the chance to do both for Women’s Health, I leaped at it.
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Irrational fears
My uneasy romance with sharks continued in this article for the Herald on Sunday on modern-day bogeymen: terrorism, GE foods, air travel, and home invasion. The problem is, interviewing a shark expert and sifting through data on plane crashes actually left me with more concrete evidence to fear them than I started with…