Life Slices

The chat with Christina Zenato from season one was fascinating. In this reediting for season 2, it's even more illuminating. You might just find sharks cute and cuddly after listening. 

From the moment we’re born, we’re living in the shadow of death. It’s coming for all of us and there’s nothing we can do. Well yes there is. We can be prepared with what we want as our final wishes so that our survivors don't have to deal with that in their grief. As Death’s Apprentice, Christa Ovenell deals with it on a daily basis and guides others through their confusion. As all of us are, Christa is Living with Death.

You can find museums for just about everything. Bottle caps, gas pumps, old cars. There's even a museum devoted to the penis. Thordur O. Thordarson is the manager of The Icelandic Phallological Museum and shares what you'll find there ... and what you won't.

The Metaverse has entered popular culture and is making inroads into real llife. Fernando De La Peña is working hard to make the Metaverse a reality with holoportation. Learn what it's all about and how you can get involved.   

Knowing the Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda were facing extinction, Dian Fossey dedicated her life to saving them.  Sadly, her life was cut short but the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund continues her work. Tara Stoinski is the fund's president & CEO and Chief Scientific Officer and joins Lifeslices to tell us about the gorillas and the work of the organization.

At a time when London was being consumed by civil unrest, Bernadette Russell decided there wasn't enough kindness in the world. She endeavored to spend a year doing acts of kindness every day. She shares how it affected others and how it changed her.

Today's entertainment could be tomorrow's classics. Just ask Shakespeare. Better yet, listen to pop culture expert Roy Schwartz explain fairy tales, vampires and comic books on Lifeslices.

Each year, a group of academics rate the world's happiest countries. It's a science and John Helliwell is one of the founding scientists. There are ways for each of us to be happy, but does it require moving to another country. Find out in The Search for Happiness on Lifeslices!

Jamie Arty, with her husband Frantz, set out to restore a historic old mansion on New York's Long Island. She discovered a lot of things, including the challenges of restoring a home damaged by the ages. Was that challenge worth it?

Online dating doesn't work for everyone, but some get lucky. Mike Faith and Anju Tomar met online and their first date lasted 204 days. This is their story.

Matthew and Tia Raiford traded one set of roots for another and now cultivate them on the farm and in the kitchen.

There are anywhere from 10-18,000 species of birds on Planet Earth. Peter Cavanagh's mission is to photograph every one in flight. 

Douglas Wolk is a pop culture critic, teacher and writer. So he decided to mix business with pleasure, reading 27,000 Marvel superhero comic books and creating a guided tour in a book. He stopped by Lifeslices to talk about it.

When Rovy Branon was in high school, he was told that higher education was not for him. Today he's the Vice Provost for the University of Washington Continuum College. He knows the importance of never giving up on education, regardless of age and place in life. 

Paul Brownstein searches the world for lost TV shows and restores them to be enjoyed today. 

Some actors work for stardom. Some just want to act. And when it pays their bills, even better. John Sanders is a working actor who appeared on Broadway and guest-starred on TV. He's currently playing Stanford White on HBO's The Gilded Age. In this episode of Lifeslices, he talks about his career.

Rachel Fulginiti isn't a household name; she's a household voice. She makes her living narrating audio books. It's an art for

Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak unearths mysteries of people's heritage. She's sort of the Indiana Jones of geneology. 

Curiosity was Daniel Seddiqui's hobby as a child. It became his vocation as an adult. 

Writer/illustrator/teacher Dana J. Sullivan shares how he became a top children's book and comic artist, where he draws his inspiration and what it takes to succeed at the game.