Memento Mori: Keep Death Before Your Eyes

Paul Utterback
4 min readNov 7, 2020

My friends will tell you that I have (from their vantage point) an annoying habit of peppering, on occasion, a standard sign-off with “most likely.”

Colleague: “See you tomorrow, Paul!”

Me: “Yes! Have a good night, and I’ll see you on the morrow…most likely.” (I know, I know — I was born to be an eccentric English teacher. Pay no mind.)

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Paul Utterback

Refugee from teaching writing about literature, minimalism, food, simplicity, sustainability and sundry topics.