Off Topic: Please Vote for Ethan Zohn

Today I noticed something new on Twitter. One of the Trending Topics on Tuesdays are usually Travel Tuesday (aka #traveltuesday), but this afternoon I noticed one I hadn’t before: Charity Tuesday (aka #charitytuesday).

STUMBLING ACROSS THE GENTLEMEN’S FUND SEARCH

Sometimes life is just Providential. I ended up discovering that besides the Lymphoma Foundation (@lymphoma) , two of the other charities I recently made the decision to support were also on Twitter: the LUNGevity Foundation (@LUNGevity) and the Alzheimer’s Association (@alzassociation).

Well, then I decided to check out the Lymphoma Foundation’s Tweets and see what news they were sharing for Charity Tuesday. That’s how I came across The Gentlemen’s Fund Better Men Better World Search and that Ethan Zohn was one of the men nominated.

WHO ETHAN ZOHN IS AND WHY HE GOT MY VOTE

If you’re a fan of Survivor, you may recognize Ethan Zohn‘s name. He was the winner of Survivor: Africa. (You might have also seen him on an episode of Celebrity Paranormal Project.)

Besides Ozzy from Survivor: Cook Islands, Ethan’s one of my favorite Survivors. Why? Because he demonstrated not only a winning spirit, but a giver’s heart. He came across as one cool dude. Kind, compassionate, and caring. In today’s world (heck, maybe in any world) those are rare qualities to find. The world would have no choice but to be a better place if there were more Ethan Zohns in it!

However, I was shocked to learn from the Lymphoma Foundation’s Tweet that he’d been stricken with cancer –lymphoma too, like me! (Except he has stage 2 Hodgkins lymphoma. Mine was non-Hodgkins.)

I was fully prepared to give him my vote anyway, but this really cinched it.

There are four other worthy candidates who’ve also been nominated for The Gentleman’s Fund Better Men Better World Search, but if you’d like to cast your vote for Ethan Zohn too click here.

But you have to hurry. Voting ends tomorrow. (Sorry. I definitely would have given you more warning if  I had found out about it before today!)

Learn more about Ethan’s lymphoma in this People article.

Follow Ethan Zohn on Twitter.

Courtney Mroch

Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.

Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.