Jake and Dannie Newsletter

Welcome to the Jake and Dannie newsletter page where I’ve archived all of the email newsletters we’ve ever sent out so that anyone can read them. Well, almost anyone. You can scroll through the titles here, but if you want to read them, you’ll need to sign up for the newsletter to receive the extremely easy to guess password. C’mon, try to guess. You can do it!

But even if you do guess the password, you should still sign up so that one of these babies will land in you inbox on the rare occasion that I don’t forget to write one. Sometimes it’s a quirky story about travel. Sometimes it’s an update about where our family is now or what we’re up to (but only if it’s interesting). Mostly it’s me venting about stuff that’s on my mind but won’t make a good blog post. Regardless, I’d be forever grateful to have you on the list.

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Here’s what our subscribers have been enjoying (probably).

My Birthday Demands (January 13, 2018)

I wrote this before my actual birthday (January 19th), but if you missed it, don’t worry! It is never to late to submit to my demands. Note to those who only visit this website because of Lisa: this letter ends with three cute Lisa quotes.

You Are Bad at Coffee: An Open (Not Open) Letter to Eurasia (December 9, 2018)

If you are a Eurasian, especially a Eurasian who operates a cafe, please read this letter and make the improvements I’ve recommended. You’re welcome.

You Don’t Know What You Look Like! (November 4, 2018)

Oh no! This one is “thinky.” Learn how trying to answer a simple question - why don’t I look good in photos? - led me down a rabbit hole of mirrors, unconscious judgement and, of course, evil twins.

I’ve Been Left in the Dust (October 7, 2018)

I was really looking forward to learning Chinese with Lisa now that we’re both fully immersed. Turns out my old geezer brain does not pick things up as quickly as a three-year-old’s.

Stinky Tofu: An Open (Not Open) Letter to Taiwan (September 23, 2018)

In this letter I confront Taiwan about their unhealthy relationship with stinky tofu. Stinky tofu is the actual name of an actual food that people in Taiwan (and a few other places) actually eat. It’s worse than it sounds.

Six Reasons You Should Marry Dannie… Even Though You Can’t… Because I Did (July 29th, 2018)

Because it was (15 days after) our anniversary, I wrote this list of reasons that you - yes YOU - should marry Dannie, a person who you cannot marry because she is married to me and I love her. The idea is to make you jealous and to romance Dannie at the same time. I am very efficient like that.

Our Apologies to Slovenia: An Open (Not Open) Letter (July 15, 2018)

Oh Slovenia, how we have wronged you! (No seriously, what’s wrong with us?)

Shattering Our Preconceptions About… Preconceptions? (June 19, 2018)

The story of how Dannie and I were talking to each other like we were all open minded and enlightened and then Lisa put us in our place because she is more innocent and honest than we are.

Greetings From Scotland (August 13, 2017)

Haha, this is that first email newsletter we wrote after starting Operation Digital Nomad, and then we didn’t write another one for almost a year.

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