Morgan Dahl
student
“When I was 5, a dog jumped on me. It was probably trying to be friendly, but at 5 years old, I was terrified.”
Oriana Macki-Nelson
floral designer at Quixotic Flowers
“I got bit by a brown recluse spider and couldn’t walk for two months. My foot turned purple and black.”
Alex Leanse
Apple employee
“I went on safari in Africa. I was so close to a lion, I heard it fart.”
Coleen Lorenz
dance teacher
“My 100-pound dog lived to be 17 years. They never thought he would live past 8 because he had tumors. At 8 1/2 years, he tore a ligament in his leg. I walked him in a sling two times a day for six months.”
This article appears in May 17-24, 2012.