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On this week's episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and host of Outward Christina Cauterucci and Julia Craven, Slate staff writer covering race, politics, and health disparities, talk about one woman: Kyrsten Sinema. From her wardrobe to her position on the filibuster, Sinema has been in the news a lot recently. The hosts talk about the Arizona senator's political evolution—she moved from the Green Party to run as a progressive Democrat, but when she got to the U.S. Senate, she tacked toward the center—and whether she is currently exhibiting any signs of political coherence. Christina unpacks the high note of Sinema at the Capitol: her wardrobe, noting that the flashy fashions that once brought visual interest to the normally drab walls of Congress have taken a turn for the worse. As Sinema started to stymie Democratic plans, her “fuck off” ring and “dangerous creature” sweater took on a whole new meaning. After the break, Julia and Christina dive deep into the filibuster. While standing in the way of the Democrats' ability to pass almost any legislation at all, Sinema has spouted inaccurate narratives of how the filibuster came into being. Julia and Christina talk about her earlier vote for John Lewis as House leader, and try to square that with her current position, which is holding up voting-rights legislation. But Sinema doesn't seem to be listening to most of the criticism she's getting for her position, instead dismissing parts of it as merely sexist.  For Slate Plus members, Julia and Christina continue our new segment, Gateway Feminism, where they talk about one thing that helped make them feminists. For Julia, it's her great-grandmother and her enduring belief that Julia could become anything she set her mind to. Christina started her career as a feminist when she revamped her co-ed soccar team jersey in protest of the team name: The Molar Men.  Recommendations Christina recommends celebrating Pride Month by educating yourself about queer politics. She suggests watching a conversation between Amy Walter and Sasha Issenberg hosted by Politics and Prose.  Julia finally finished reading her first book in almost a year! She finished The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett, and highly recommends finishing books. But Julia holds zero judgment on wherever you are at in your reading journey.    Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Additional production assistance by Rosemary Belson. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and host of Outward Christina Cauterucci and Julia Craven, Slate staff writer covering race, politics, and health disparities, talk about one woman: Kyrsten Sinema. From her wardrobe to her position on the filibuster, Sinema has been in the news a lot recently. The hosts talk about the Arizona senator's political evolution—she moved from the Green Party to run as a progressive Democrat, but when she got to the U.S. Senate, she tacked toward the center—and whether she is currently exhibiting any signs of political coherence. Christina unpacks the high note of Sinema at the Capitol: her wardrobe, noting that the flashy fashions that once brought visual interest to the normally drab walls of Congress have taken a turn for the worse. As Sinema started to stymie Democratic plans, her “fuck off” ring and “dangerous creature” sweater took on a whole new meaning. After the break, Julia and Christina dive deep into the filibuster. While standing in the way of the Democrats' ability to pass almost any legislation at all, Sinema has spouted inaccurate narratives of how the filibuster came into being. Julia and Christina talk about her earlier vote for John Lewis as House leader, and try to square that with her current position, which is holding up voting-rights legislation. But Sinema doesn't seem to be listening to most of the criticism she's getting for her position, instead dismissing parts of it as merely sexist.  For Slate Plus members, Julia and Christina continue our new segment, Gateway Feminism, where they talk about one thing that helped make them feminists. For Julia, it's her great-grandmother and her enduring belief that Julia could become anything she set her mind to. Christina started her career as a feminist when she revamped her co-ed soccar team jersey in protest of the team name: The Molar Men.  Recommendations Christina recommends celebrating Pride Month by educating yourself about queer politics. She suggests watching a conversation between Amy Walter and Sasha Issenberg hosted by Politics and Prose.  Julia finally finished reading her first book in almost a year! She finished The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett, and highly recommends finishing books. But Julia holds zero judgment on wherever you are at in your reading journey.    Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Additional production assistance by Rosemary Belson. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and host of Outward Christina Cauterucci and Julia Craven, Slate staff writer covering race, politics, and health disparities, talk about one woman: Kyrsten Sinema. From her wardrobe to her position on the filibuster, Sinema has been in the news a lot recently. The hosts talk about the Arizona senator's political evolution—she moved from the Green Party to run as a progressive Democrat, but when she got to the U.S. Senate, she tacked toward the center—and whether she is currently exhibiting any signs of political coherence. Christina unpacks the high note of Sinema at the Capitol: her wardrobe, noting that the flashy fashions that once brought visual interest to the normally drab walls of Congress have taken a turn for the worse. As Sinema started to stymie Democratic plans, her “fuck off” ring and “dangerous creature” sweater took on a whole new meaning. After the break, Julia and Christina dive deep into the filibuster. While standing in the way of the Democrats' ability to pass almost any legislation at all, Sinema has spouted inaccurate narratives of how the filibuster came into being. Julia and Christina talk about her earlier vote for John Lewis as House leader, and try to square that with her current position, which is holding up voting-rights legislation. But Sinema doesn't seem to be listening to most of the criticism she's getting for her position, instead dismissing parts of it as merely sexist.  For Slate Plus members, Julia and Christina continue our new segment, Gateway Feminism, where they talk about one thing that helped make them feminists. For Julia, it's her great-grandmother and her enduring belief that Julia could become anything she set her mind to. Christina started her career as a feminist when she revamped her co-ed soccar team jersey in protest of the team name: The Molar Men.  Recommendations Christina recommends celebrating Pride Month by educating yourself about queer politics. She suggests watching a conversation between Amy Walter and Sasha Issenberg hosted by Politics and Prose.  Julia finally finished reading her first book in almost a year! She finished The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett, and highly recommends finishing books. But Julia holds zero judgment on wherever you are at in your reading journey.    Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Additional production assistance by Rosemary Belson. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg join host Tristan Taormino to talk about the book they co-created Every Body: An Honest and Open Look at Sex From Every Angle. In it, they collected hundreds of stories about sex both anonymously and credited which they share in this delightful book. It covers every conceivable topic from first times to hook ups to mental health and polyamory to BDSM and pegging. They talk about the process of collecting the stories, which included asking strangers on the street to share their sex stories. They discuss the challenges, joy, and takeaways from the process of talking to so many people about their sex lives. For Julia, she felt less alone after collecting all the interviews. Shaina said the book “changed her brain.” Find out why. Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg are constant collaborators. Their illustrated column, Scratch, runs every other Sunday in The New York Times. They have also collaborated on illustrated stories for The New Yorker, Topic and other publications. Julia is the author and/or illustrator of twelve books, including Nature Anatomy, Ladies Drawing Night, and Hello, New York. In 2017, she cofounded, with Wendy MacNoughton, Women Who Draw, an open directory of female-identifying illustrators, artists, and cartoonists. Shaina is a writer/director who has created content for the The New York Times, IFC, Audible, Refinery29, First Look Media, This American Life, and BRICTV. Both Shaina and Julia live in Brooklyn. Thanks to Calm and Pour Moi for their support of this episode.

The writer Julia Blackburn has lived much of the last forty years on the Suffolk coast where she has written biographies, poetry, radio plays and accounts of her own life. In recent years it is the landscape that has captured her imagination and her most recent book, 'Time Song', tells of how she became fascinated with the area known as Doggerland - a mass of land that once joined Suffolk and Holland and which is now submerged beneath the waves of the North Sea. Helen Mark joins Julia for a virtual walk along the Suffolk coast, starting at Sizewell and the shadow of the nuclear power station and along to the marshlands at Minsmere with all its accompanying bird-life. From there it's onto Dunwich where Julia once found a human skull, and onto Covehithe where she came across a bit of Mammoth vertebrae. For Julia these objects are part of the 'visitable past' and they become a means of telling stories about this precarious landscape. They finish in Pakefield where, in 2001, two men discovered a fragment of flint that provided proof of human settlements dating back 700'000 years. For Julia these objects tell a story of a fragment of time, which combined with the huge skies and the muddy sea make it a magical place. With contributions from Alex Pilling from RSPB Minsmere and Professor Martin Bell from the University of Reading. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Toby Field, with additional recordings by Sophie Anton and Alex Pilling.

13. Déjà vu - Cover Songs Show (Instrumental Special) Tuesday 5th and Thursday 7th January Presented by Rich Davies   TRACK 1 All along the Watchtower - Devlin (Bob Dylan 1967) TRACK 2 Riders on the Storm - Yonderboi (The Doors 1971) For Darren. TRACK 3 Georgio - Nu Deco Ensemble (Daft Punk 2013) TRACK 4 Peter Gunn - Art of Noise (Henry Mancini 1959) TRACK 5 Green Onions - Paul Hardcastle (Booker T. & the M.G.'s 1962) For Marc on the Nightbus, Friday's from 8pm. TRACK 6 Clubbed to Death - Pete Tong & the Heritage Orchestra (Rob Dougan 1995) For Jo. TRACK 7 Unfinished Sympathy - Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (Massive Attack 1991) TRACK 8 On her Majesty's Secret Service - Propellerheads (John Barry 1969) For Steve Evans. TRACK 9 Doctor Who - Orbital (Ron Grainer & the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1963) For Lee Guest. TRACK 10 The Force Theme - Scandroid (John Williams 1977) Another one for Lee Guest. TRACK 11 Robinson Crusoe - The Art of Noise (Robert Mellin 1965) For Jean Davies. TRACK 12 Tubular Bells - Billy Watman (Mike Oldfield 1973) For Colin Davies. TRACK 13 Kashmir - Public Image Ltd. PIL (Led Zeppelin 1975) TRACK 14 Eleanor Rigby -Strings Only - Anthology 2 (George Martin 1966) For Julia. TRACK 15 Thunderstruck - 2Cellos (AC/DC 1990) For Phoebe. TRACK 16 Requiem For a Tower - Escala (Clint Mansell & the Kronos Quartet 2000) TRACK 17 Sweet Dreams - Simply Three (Eurythmics 1983) For the 80's crew, catch them Thursdays from 6pm. TRACK 18 Hocus Pocus - Vanessa-Mae (Focus 1971) For Stuart down in Bristol. TRACK 19 The Ecstasy of Gold - Metallica (Ennio Morricone 1966 The good, the bad and the ugly) TRACK 20 Albatross - The Shadows (Fleetwood Mac 1968) For fellow DJ Gary Davies. TRACK 21 Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee (Live) - Extreme, Nuno Bettencourt, intro to He-Man Woman Hater (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1899) TRACK 22 Children - sleepmakeswaves on Triple J Like a version (Robert Miles 1995) TRACK 23 Rock Medley - Red Hot Chilli Pipers TRACK 24 The Mandalorian / Gonna Fly Now - Samuel Kim (Ludwig Göransson 2019 / Bill Conti 1977) TRACK 25 Wade in the Water - Ramsey Lewis (The Sunset Four Jubilee Singers 1925) For John Moore. TRACK 26 Daft Punk Medley - Chilly Gonzales (Daft Punk 1996) For Kat. TRACK 27 Fear of the Dark - Gamazda (Iron Maiden 1992) For Stuart. TRACK 28 Hotel California - Scott D. Davis (The Eagles 1976) For John Yarnall. TRACK 29 Memories - Midnight Tales (Maroon 5 & Canon in D, Johann Pachelbel 1680) For Ali from the Wellness Wednesday Show, live from 12 noon. TRACK 30 You'll Never Walk alone - Andre Rieu (Christine Johnson with Carousel Chorus 1945, Major hit for Gerry and The Pacemakers 1963) In memory of Gerry Marsden. TRACK 31 Rock Me Amadeus - 8 Bit Universe (Falco 1985)   If you have any cover requests, send them to rich@solihullradio.com

My guest today, Julia Black was faced with a very real problem to solve. Her daughter was struggling at school. She felt fenced in, crushed and dispirited. The light inside her 7 year old child, for learning, had gone out. What would you do if you were in that situation? For Julia, she knew something had to change. And so she took action. She and her family spent the next 12 years on an amazing real-world adventure exploring cutting-edge educational practices, neuroscientific developments and mental wellbeing research. And the good news is that she found a way to transform children who were totally bored by what school has to offer and turn them into the most intrinsically motivated learners. Be aware - this is not for hands-off parents. To light up your child, you must first turn on the light in yourself, and that is challenging yet rewarding work. Fortunately, Julia has transformed thousands of families through her Lights On® Academy. They are leading more positive, creative and happy lives because of it. This is one of the most valuable interviews I've done on this show. Enjoy!

My guest today, Julia Black was faced with a very real problem to solve. Her daughter was struggling at school. She felt fenced in, crushed and dispirited. The light inside her 7 year old child, for learning, had gone out. What would you do if you were in that situation? For Julia, she knew something had to change. And so she took action. She and her family spent the next 12 years on an amazing real-world adventure exploring cutting-edge educational practices, neuroscientific developments and mental wellbeing research. And the good news is that she found a way to transform children who were totally bored by what school has to offer and turn them into the most intrinsically motivated learners. Be aware - this is not for hands-off parents. To light up your child, you must first turn on the light in yourself, and that is challenging yet rewarding work. Fortunately, Julia has transformed thousands of families through her Lights On® Academy. They are leading more positive, creative and happy lives because of it. This is one of the most valuable interviews I've done on this show. Enjoy!

There’s no escaping hurdles and trials in our day-to-day lives. Being faced with adversity is a common thread among all of us as human beings. The question, then, is why some people can become completely overwhelmed by obstacles while others are able to embrace them and come out the other side stronger than ever. n We address: n ●  What is the fine line that separates those who succeed versus those who fail? n ●  What is the key to overcoming your limitations? n ●  What is the “pain cave” and why should you look forward to it when chasing any goal? n ●  What is the value of listening to your gut? n Karen Morales welcomes Julia Becker Collins, an endurance athlete and the COO at Vision Advertising, a boutique, inbound marketing firm, to shed some light on what to do when life throws you a curveball (or two, or three, or four, one after the other). Few today can articulate the spirit of crisis management like she can: Apart from years of experience in endurance athletics and leading teams, Julia received a thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2020, throwing her into a new journey of being a survivor. n Julia believes, despite the success she has had balancing huge responsibilities for Vision Advertising while dealing with her medical challenges at the same time, amid the pandemic to top it all off, that her grit, endurance, and potential are no different than anyone else’s. “Cancer is only part of me,” she says. “It’s not all of me.” There’s no escaping the fact that life will throw test after test at us. The single biggest difference between those who stagnate and those who thrive regardless is the willingness to embrace the challenges. The choice is between growing and dying. For Julia, nurturing an insatiable hunger for growth makes life worth living. n 3 MAJOR POINTS DISCUSSED n ●  You will not only change your job multiple times in life, but your career as well. A lot of young people understandably assume that the field they go into after graduation is set for life; but for the vast majority of working professionals, that’s rarely the case. You’ll have those crucial moments where a career pivot is inevitable. After all, when you’re a decade or two into your career, you’re probably not going to resemble how you were in your 20s. Likewise, the choices you’ve made up to that point, the situation you were in as a college student, and maybe even your core values may no longer be relevant to how you’ll see the near future. Embrace the never-ending evolution of who you are as a person. If there’s one thing in life that’s consistent, it’s change. n ●  Embrace the circumstances you were born into, and grow anyway. Karen and Julia both find it difficult to understand why people would find their personal and professional journeys “inspiring”. Isn’t it logical to simply deal the cards you’re dealt and find a way to win anyway? You can’t decide the circumstances of your birth, but you can decide the direction of your life. n ●  Pain is part of the process. As the old saying goes: “You need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.” True performers don’t get emotionally invested in the constant barrage of discomfort that comes their way naturally on account of their never-ending desire to improve. When faced with challenges of any sort, Julia simply tells us to “deal with it and move on.” n RESOURCES n ●  More about Julia n ●  Find us on Facebook n ●  Visit our website n ●  Find Julia on Instagram n ●  Check Out Vision Advertising on Instagram The post Julia Becker Collins: Tips from Endurance Athletes about Overcoming Adversity appeared first on Momentum Magnet.

For Julia, nothing says Halloween quite like Hocus Pocus. For Amanda... she’s never seen it. Shocker. We dive into the Salem-inspired Disney Halloween classic, fall in love with Binx, question how a musical number could happen, and dream of a New England Halloween.  This week, Julia recommends Folk Magic and Healing by Fez Inkwright. Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about kidnapping, child endangerment/death, hanging, burning, animal death, sexual harassment, and mind control.    Sponsors - Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn—and teach—just about anything. Visit skillshare.com/spirits2 to get two months of Skillshare Premium for free! This week Julia recommends “Writing for Online Engagement: Fiction in a Digital World” - Honeybook: A purpose-built business management platform for creative small businesses. Get 50% off your first year on HoneyBook.com/SPIRITS. - Angel Mage, the newest standalone fantasy novel from Garth Nix.    Find Us Online If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more.  Transcripts are available at spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to SpiritsPodcast.com.   About Us Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

On episode number 8 of the Circular Metabolism Podcast, we had the chance to chat with Julia Vol, previously Governments & Cities Network Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.I was particularly interested to discuss with Julia to better understand how the EMF managed to create such a momentum around circular economy in such a short notice. Indeed, as a researcher on the topic for some years I have wondered for quite some time why this expression became so popular compared to the green, blue or resilient economy and what were the arguments that convinced this vast array of stakeholders ranging from very large companies, to governments and to startups. According to Julia, circular economy took off so quickly because unlike other sustainability agendas and plans, it is an economic agenda that is focusing on innovation, business development, job creation, etc. which makes sense to most businesses. On top of that, the EMF managed to be at the place at the right time to capitalise on existing initiatives from sustainability and CSR but make them more operational.While, I could understand why the private sector would be motivated to include circular economy principles in their business models, it was still hard to understand why local, regional and national governments are also so interested in this concept. Julia mentions that they also see the economic benefits of circular economy. But governments and administrations also face new sets of systemic challenges which were less present 10-20 years ago. In that sense, they need to reinvent themselves, create new types of growth, take care of job creation but also most importantly face their materiality. With the China ban, cities become suddenly aware of their need to take care of their used materials.Yet, how do we make a city more circular which doesn’t necessarily own all of the infrastructures and economic sectors needed to deploy circular economy strategies. For Julia, at the city scale we could do so if we focus at the circular economy from a design perspective, so not only how to recycle more but how do we engage with businesses that provide the services that are used in cities (such as mobility, food, etc.). By engaging with daily users and given that it is a densely populated area over a limited territory, cities can become a hotbed for design, material and business model innovations.So far, Julia has identified two approaches to facilitate and accelerate the uptake of circular economy in cities. First, cities like Amsterdam, Brussels and Charlotte for instance, develop an urban metabolism study to have a better knowledge on the flows entering and exiting the city in order to identify the priority sectors upon which to focus. The second approach, used by cities like London, Phoenix, Toronto, is to identify the existing biggest players that could have an impact on the circular economy and try working with them to have a higher impact.In addition, the city has a role to recognise the most promising ventures in their context and to provide funding and infrastructures to help them grow. This is where bigger companies can also come into play as they can make a pilot in one city and then scale up in more cities. In such a complex system, to scale up the circular economy you need a resilient ecosystem of diverse actors. This means on the one hand, smaller and on the ground actors to cater for context-specific aspects of different cities and users, and on the other hand bigger ones that can generalise solutions across the globe.Finally, based on the real hype around circular economy in the last decade, I wanted to ask Julia how can we prevent circular washing or in other words abuse the expression circular economy for just minimal and artificial initiatives without really changing their core business models. For Julia, if companies are doing so, they are just missing out business development and revenue opportunities which will hurt them in the long run.Enjoy this episode and don’t forget to visit our website www.circularmetabolism.com for the rest of our productions. Before you go, please help us improve our podcast by subscribing to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher and leave us a comment with your thoughts.- website: http://tiny.cc/e6ay7y- iTunes: http://tiny.cc/9flx7y- Stitcher: http://tiny.cc/3glx7y- Spotify: http://tiny.cc/nhlx7y----------------------------------------------------------------For more information on the work of Ellen MacArthur Foundation on cities, and to access their suite of online resources for urban policymakers, visit : https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/our-work/activities/circular-economy-in-citiesWatch the presentation of Julia during the Circular Economy Day in Brussels :https://youtu.be/WrNW_RQ4zgo

If you’ve ever tuned into CBS This Morning: Saturday and seen a chef or cookbook author get to talk with the anchors about their career and their food on the segment known as "The Dish," producer Marci Waldman was behind what you saw on your television screen. Born and raised in New York City, Marci started working at CBS News when she was 13 years old. Her father, who very sadly passed away after this interview was recorded, worked at CBS News for almost 50 years. Marci pretty much grew up in the building. It’s the only place she’s ever worked. Marci sat down with Julia and spoke about what goes into making television, what it’s been like to work her entire life in the same place she grew up in, how she has stood up for herself, and how The Dish came to be. There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shout out to La Cocina whose new cookbook was just released. Follow-up links: To view Julia's segment of The Dish, head here. For Julia's recipe for Citrus Rum Punch, available exclusively on oxo.com, head here. To order the La Cocina cookbook or to get details about their book tour, head here.

Julia Eyre is a Strength and Conditioning Coach, Return to Play Specialist, Sports Performance Psychologist and the owner of White Lion Performance. After ending a passionate soccer career riddled with injury, Julia now directs her knowledge and experience into helping athletes to reach their maximum capacity each day. Since 2011, she has worked to promote long-term and individualized player development in NCAA Division I schools along the East Coast, USA, and in the private sector worldwide with her company, White Lion Performance. Additionally, she is a researcher at the German Sport University in Köln, where she studies the psycho-physiology (brain-body connection) of performance stress and coping in athletes. For Julia, the question of “how do we optimize athletic performance?” is always in the foreground (in flashing lights). Regardless of what hat she wears on any given day, her primary job is to help athletes build stronger minds, faster bodies, and ultimately become better humans.Links: Learn more about Julia at: Homepage: whitelionperformance.com Instagram: instagram.com/whitelionperformance Facebook: facebook.com/whitelionperformance Twitter: twitter.com/thejulialion

Elazar Sontag, a cookbook author, freelance writer, and editor at Serious Eats, talks to Julia about cooking, writing, anxiety, Guy Fieri, and more. There are also answers to listeners' questions and a shoutout to The Trevor Project. Some follow-up links! For more about Elazar, head here. For more about Elazar's book* Flavors of Oakland*, head here. For Julia's recipe for Charoset Quinoa from Now & Again, featured by Great Jones, head here. Don't forget to use your discount code for your Great Jones order! For more about The Trevor Project, head here. For the interview between The Trevor Project's CEO Amit Paley and comic Cameron Esposito on her podcast Queery, head here. For more about Julia and her work, head here.

In today's episode, we share listener feedback on the importance of listening and Beth shares why timing can be so important to personal breakthroughs. We also talk about the effects of media on ourselves and on our kids. Recommended Resources: Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is WelcomeI should never have been allowed to see Dirty Dancing. "For Julia, In the Deep Water" by John N. Morris See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first half, Patricia interviews James Pawleski, Ph.D. and Suzann Pawleski, co-authors of Happy Together. Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts. This book applies positive psychology to create successful and satisfying relationships that will last. They will discuss the four key areas that are crucial for romance to last for the long-term and is a roadmap to happiness for couples. This book will help you find and feed the good in yourself and your partner. In the second half, Patricia interviews Julia Schopick, author of Honest Medicine: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases. Julia will discuss four lifesaving treatments that have been actively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25-90 years. However, these treatments have not been universally accepted yet due to lack of profitability. The book's mission is to inform the world about these treatments and to empower people in their health choices.

In the first half, Patricia interviews James Pawleski, Ph.D. and Suzann Pawleski, co-authors of Happy Together. Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts. This book applies positive psychology to create successful and satisfying relationships that will last. They will discuss the four key areas that are crucial for romance to last for the long-term and is a roadmap to happiness for couples. This book will help you find and feed the good in yourself and your partner. In the second half, Patricia interviews Julia Schopick, author of Honest Medicine: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases. Julia will discuss four lifesaving treatments that have been actively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25-90 years. However, these treatments have not been universally accepted yet due to lack of profitability. The book's mission is to inform the world about these treatments and to empower people in their health choices.

Julia was very emotional this past week, and she did in fact forget to change her patch one day this week, and the two may be related. Sarah went to an event about women’s health, with a cardiologist and a brain scientist - and they were asked about hormone replacement therapy effects on brain and heart. Turns out affects are much lower/smaller with patch or topicals than with ingestibles. We know from reading this book, but it’s still news to people that heart disease is the main killer of women, more than all cancers combined. They talked about how heart attacks show up differently in men and women - it manifests very differently. And that they’ve spent so much time studying men and their heart health issues, not as much time on women. And Omega-3 is really good for women. Eat fish! Plus reduce sugar - it’s really bad for the brain. For Julia’s work she must sit in a recliner chair in a dark room, which she calls a high-class problem, but she doesn’t get a chance to work out routinely. But she realizes she needs to make better choices in terms of diet and bring in exercise when she can. Not everyone likes kale, but hey, more for Sarah. Julia has had trouble with taking the calcium/magnesium/vitamin D pills - they can affect the digestive tract. Bear that in mind. Sarah asked her physician about hormone replacement therapy and whether it was appropriate for her. The Dr. said that HRT is prescribed when someone is not feeling WELL, and that Sarah seemed to her Doctor to be doing well. (And Sarah feels she is, too.) So for Sarah it’s more about a few symptoms - the heart palpitations and having her period again. Not about the out of balance feeling that led Julia to seek HRT in the first place. The Murderous Rage. Bible Study - Chapter 3 - Coming Home to Yourself, from Dependence to Healthy Autonomy Sarah felt like the chapter spoke to her - there’s a whole different dynamic in her household with her son away at college. Some sadness, but it’s not all bad. Sarah went through a lot of changes when she became a Mom. She was pregnant, got married and stopped working all at the same time. Her husband was the sole provider and she lost a sense of herself.  It rocked her world and she didn’t like it. She got to a place where she didn’t take care of herself at all and felt it would have been selfish to even eat well or set boundaries. Finally she had an awakening and realized that made no sense. It took years to really learn how, but she started taking care of herself and not feeling bad about it. And setting good boundaries. She sees people doing this over and over and over again and she wishes she could tell them to stop! It’s not worth it! Julia talks about being a boss and making sure her team members know what boundaries she has for them and the metrics by which their work can be judged. Clarity. And a great boss! The chapter talks again about the disparity between men and women when it comes to wage earning and housework - and all the things that would fit under that definition. So many things! Julia felt many of things in the chapter didn’t apply to her, as an older mom of a younger child. Plus she had the ability to keep working once she had her daughter, so she didn’t have those personal definition changes happen in her life the same way it happened to Sarah. Julia was financially independent before meeting her husband - bought her home by herself, etc. For Sarah it was different. While she earned a living and could pay rent, it took a while to really achieve financial maturity. One of the necessary steps is being willing to take an unflinching look at your money and how you spend it - and it can be really hard to do. Plus - do you know where everything is - like the insurance papers, deeds, etc… It makes us both want to do inventory and clean out clutter in our offices and homes. Sarah admits she has tons of photos of her kids sitting around, not getting themselves into albums and she has decided to get them done! Then the ladies chat about the differences between the digital photo reality we live in now and the analog, printed photographs world we used to live in. Julia even started a blog in 2006 to show off her photos of her working trip to Mexico because it was so much easier than emailing scanned photos to people she knew. And, as a bonus, it was what inspired Sarah to begin blogging! And now Sarah can teach Julia about SEO… Julia wonders what finances and independence is like for Millennial women - and in the future for her daughter - what generational differences will there be? And the ladies discuss the divide between moms who work outside the home and those who stay home (and may not work). Sarah met a woman this week whose first question to her was “Do you work?” It was such a strange thing! How Hot Was Your Flash? Sarah had none this week, even after a big cheat day. No hot flashes for Julia, either. Yay!

This week on StoryWeb: Rick Nelson’s song “Garden Party.” For Julia, in honor of her birthday In 1972, my two-year-old sister could sing all the words to this Rick Nelson hit. Why she latched on to this particular song when it came on the car radio none of us will ever know – not even Julia. She would sit in her car seat – not one of the safety-conscious car seats of today – and practically dance in her seat, legs and arms bopping to the beat. So “Garden Party” has a special place in my memories. But there’s an interesting story to the song itself as well. Rick Nelson was, of course, one of two sons of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, famous stars of their own 1950s and 1960s television show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. To be an Ozzie or a Harriet, to be a Ricky or a David, to be a Nelson meant that you were part of a wholesome, all-American family. The Nelsons epitomized the white picket fence dream of Eisenhower’s America. As a teen in the late 1950s, Ricky Nelson emerged as a rock-and-roll performer, with an emphasis on rockabilly. In short order, he became a teen idol. Though he officially changed his performance name to Rick Nelson in 1961 when he was 21, he would forever be known as “Ricky” by the many teen girls who had fallen in love with him. With the onset of Beatlemania, Rick Nelson’s music fell out of popularity. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was still making music, recording in the country-rock genre emerging at the time. But his new music was not catching on in quite the way he hoped. Things came to a head in 1971 when he performed at an oldies concert at Madison Square Garden. Other oldies artists – including Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard – played the show, which was intended to showcase the music of a bygone era. Wearing bell bottoms and a purple velvet shirt and sporting long hair, Nelson at first played “Be-Bop Baby,” “Hello, Mary Lou,” and other old hits, but when he launched into a country version of the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women,” the audience booed him off the stage. Disgusted by what had happened at the show, he wrote “Garden Party,” weaving together references to musicians and songs performed at the concert. In an essay for Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story Behind the Song, his son Gunnar Nelson recalls: “After a lifetime of pretending to be a character he wasn’t – wearing the sweater on Monday on the set of Ozzie and Harriet after being a real rock star on the weekends – he was writing and performing for his own pleasure and satisfaction.” Gunnar says one of his most prized possessions is his father’s handwritten lyrics to “Garden Party,” featured at SongFacts, which includes extensive background on the song and on Rick Nelson’s career. Nelson offers reminisces about the song in a 1983 interview. I love that “Garden Party” tells a real story – and I also love that it allowed Rick Nelson to get the last laugh. Ironically, he is really known now mostly for this song – a tune about not having his music appreciated. Though he never regained his earlier popularity by the time he died in a plane crash in 1985 at age 45, it seems Rick Nelson had learned the real lesson from that experience at Madison Square Garden – to be true to yourself and to your creative vision. For me, though, this song will always conjure up images of my beloved little sister, her big brown eyes and long, curly brown hair, her pumping arms and legs, and her two-year-old voice exclaiming, “You see you can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself.” Visit thestoryweb.com/nelson for links to all these resources and to watch Rick Nelson play “Garden Party” on Midnight Special, hosted by Wolfman Jack.

This week on StoryWeb: David Sedaris’s essay “The Santaland Diaries.” For Julia and Jim, my favorite David Sedaris fans My sister, Julia, is one of David Sedaris’s biggest fans. She and my husband, Jim, love giggling together over favorite passages from Sedaris’s droll radio essays. While Sedaris is an accomplished writer, it is in his oral delivery of his essays – his readings – that he really makes his mark. Sure, you can recite a favorite line or try to imitate him doing “Away in a Manager” as Billie Holiday, but really, why try? Only David Sedaris can really do David Sedaris. Sedaris’s breakout came when he recorded “The Santaland Diaries” for NPR’s Morning Edition in December 1992, his debut for national public radio. When the essay was broadcast, more people requested a tape of it than any Morning Edition story up to that time (except for the death of beloved NPR commentator Red Barber.)  Small in stature, Sedaris recalls landing a gig (if you can call it that) as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland. He played Crumpet for two seasons at the Macy’s store in New York’s Herald Square. If you are familiar with Sedaris’s work, you know that this bizarre set-up – small gay man meets American capitalist Christmas extravaganza – is the perfect vehicle for Sedaris’s storytelling. How did Sedaris make it to the big time? Radio host Ira Glass discovered him in a Chicago club where Sedaris was reading from his diary. Glass invited Sedaris to appear on his weekly local program, The Wild Room. “I owe everything to Ira,” says Sedaris. “My life just changed completely, like someone waved a magic wand.” Since his big break on NPR, Sedaris has been a frequent contributor to Glass’s nationally distributed public radio program, This American Life. Are Sedaris’s essays true? Alexander S. Heard – in an article for The New Republic – went to the trouble of fact-checking some of the essays and found holes (sometimes gaping holes) in Sedaris’s tales. He did work at Macy’s Santaland, and Bob Rutan, a Macy’s executive, recalls him as “an outstanding elf.” But given the controversy surrounding the factuality of the essays, NPR now clearly labels “The Santaland Diaries” – a perennial holiday favorite – as fiction. And Sedaris himself in a note in his 2009 book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, acknowledged that his tales are “realish.” (For more on the controversy over the “truth” behind Sedaris’s essays, check out an article in the Washington Post.) Ready to explore more of Sedaris’s work? Check out his 1994 collection, Barrel Fever, or his 1997 collection, Holidays on Ice, both of which include “The Santaland Diaries.” Other volumes include: Naked (1998), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2001), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2005), and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (2014). These books are also available as audio recordings – and if you want the full David Sedaris experience, I recommend investing in The Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set. To learn more, visit Sedaris’s official website – and if you want to stay up to date on all things David Sedaris, you can follow him on Facebook or sign up for his newsletter. You can also listen to and read excerpts from a 2013 Terry Gross interview with Sedaris on Fresh Air. Visit thestoryweb.com/Sedaris for links to all these resources and to listen as David Sedaris reads “The Santaland Diaries” in its entirety. A shorter except is also available. This holiday season revisit David Sedaris’s “The Santaland Diaries” – or if you’ve never heard it before, sit back, buckle up, and get ready for some rip-roaring laughter.