When It Comes to My Kid, Ophidiophobia Is the Least of My Worries

Since becoming a dad, my greatest fears have turned into mere nuisances… And whole new fears have become real.

Image via DALL-E artificial intelligence from OpenAI, based on a prompt by the author… Hence the really weird-looking snake.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a phobia of snakes. I don’t mean the typical fear we humans have of things that slither, a probable remnant of the time when we…