by B.L. Unkel | Oct 10, 2020 | History
Literally, the night after I wrote Did You Know You Don’t Have to Die to Be Buried? I read an article about a Detroit funeral home whose morticians found the corpse recently delivered to them wasn’t a corpse at all. She was breathing. EMS arrived—questioning the call,...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 3, 2020 | History
We’ve all heard: “Kids say the darndest things.” Well, here’s a story from my family. Years ago, when two of my sisters and two of my young nieces were visiting me in Tennessee, I was playing tour guide, showing them all things family-related—old homeplaces,...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 26, 2020 | Writing
By the end of third grade, if a child isn’t reading on a third-grade level, their reading skills are unlikely to ever catch up to their grade level. Of course, never say never, but . . . Last month as everyone prepared for a new—if uncertain, thanks to Covid—school...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 19, 2020 | Travel
Back in 2003, as I prepared to travel to Guam for work, I was told the story I shared in last week’s Did You Know Armadillos Don’t Fair Well In . . . Guam? There is a mention, in information about the Governor, of armadillos being transported to Guam from Texas—but...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 18, 2020 | Travel
No, my Did You Know? newsletter hasn’t moved to Fridays. Tomorrow morning, you’ll still receive the advertised and scheduled Did You Know What Happened to the Guam Snails? This is just an unexpected, bonus Did You Know? follow-up. Enjoy! As the saying goes, timing is...
by B.L. Unkel | Sep 11, 2020 | History
More than half a century ago, a Texan was appointed governor of the U.S. Territory of Guam. The island faced a number of problems, one being how to deal with crop-destroying snails. The man the governor had appointed as his Agricultural Secretary, a friend and fellow...
