Hi everyone!

Apologies for being silent these past two months. Last Thanksgiving the children of a friend of mine asked to see my web site. I hesitated, knowing that I’ve geared this site entirely to adults. Relenting, they confirmed my fears by only taking interest in short video clips.

So I’ve been thinking about how to redo things. I’ve also been envisioning several other nature education programs not strictly related to spiders. Here’s the line-up of programs I’m planning:

• Spiders, microhabitat, and ecology
• Biophysics and biomathematics
• Nature appreciation and nature-inspired creativity

Although spiders will remain my primary critter of expertise, I’m going to branch out broadly beyond spiders. I’ll be revising the site with the following objectives in mind:

• The site will serve as a calling card for my childrens’ programs, including program descriptions and calendar of public events.
• The blog will serve as an endless virtual nature walk, giving kids sample tidbits from all of my programs.
• Captions and summaries will be written at a 3rd or 4th grade reading level.
• Articles will be written at a 5th or 6th grade reading level.

I fully expect everything to be interesting and educational to adults as well, but children will be my primary audience.

I have numerous projects underway right now, but I’ve already begun work on the revision. Thanks for hanging in there!

~joe