Another year, and another tradition upheld.
My 2024 letter brought back a flood of memories, and my 2025, however brief, achieved the same.
Read MoreAuthor: Matthew Heick
Death Education
Sex Education. Everyone who went through secondary school remembers this. Parents remember the permission slips and kids remember teachers telling their students to “grow up” with the cringey displays of how the miracle of life happens.
There isn’t much taught about Death Education.
A random video came across my eyeballs on facebook that helps make this one of the most exciting topics to learn about, complete with the “miracle of death.” The clip is from the FX Network show “Dying for Sex“, Season 1, Episode 8.
I thought that if I were to teach about death this is the way it should be done.
Props for whomever wrote the dialogue for this scene. It’s lightweight, enthusiastic, and direct; exactly how knowledge should be passed along.
Read MoreTravelers Diarrhea
Traveler’s diarrhea is a digestive tract disorder that commonly causes loose stools and stomach cramps. It’s caused by eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water. Fortunately, traveler’s diarrhea usually isn’t serious in most people — it’s just unpleasant.
– Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/syc-20352182
16 years ago I returned from my first international trip to Hong Kong, and low and behold my uneducated self sat on the toilet. I deduced that accidentally drinking a little shower water in a hotel might’ve created the pain I had to endure for the following days.
I planned today to take a journey back 16 years, kicking my digital heels off to travel again to Hong Kong for the first time, again.
Read MoreDate: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:52:54 -0800 (PST)
Recently I was asked “What did I do that I couldn’t go to Canada”, and before I was able to dialogue the tale I immediately heard “wasn’t it that thing with the felonies?”
The quick answer was “no”, but then I was asked to tell the story about “the felonies.” I still have the email that caused it all…
Read MoreGilligan’s Island: Ante Commorientes
Commorientes: “simultaneous deaths”
Ante: (no longer productive) Prior to in time.
Needed a fancy word that makes no sense to document the order of passing of the characters of the 1964-1967 sitcom Gilligan’s Island.
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