Podcasts about our spring

We delve into the results of the Spring 2025 Collective Voice Survey, our twice-yearly report on how collectors feel about all things watches. Our Spring 2025 survey offers a fresh look at what's on the minds of watch enthusiasts—what excites them, what frustrates them, and how those feelings translate (or don't) into actual buying behavior. Just like our inaugural survey in Summer 2024, this round was packed with thoughtful, candid, and occasionally contradictory responses. Full survey results are available at collectivehorology.com/blog. Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology, Openwork goes inside the watch industry. You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.

Dive into the Spring 2025 Issue with the subject editors! Our Spring 2025 Issue is gorgeous. Just look at that cover! Then dig into “John Taylor on the ‘Dark Ages'” by Charles Harrell and “Unveiling… The post Spring 2025 Issue Overview appeared first on Dialogue Journal.

Our Spring gardens are in full swing, and we're giving you all the tips and tricks that we're doing right now that can serve you and your gardens. Enjoy the chat!americanfarmsteadhers.com  americanfarmsteadconvention.com

- Day 5 at Spring Training continues as DANIEL KRAMER joins the show to give us his thoughts on what he's seen the first week. - The Mariners signed Rowdy Telez to a minor league contract - Thoughts from week 1 :30- Victor Robles made a big impact last year, can he do it again? :45- Our Spring training coverage continues, but that game last night was something!

BITG 5.25.24 There's Room for Mushrooms • "The Honeydew List," • Holy Hydrangeas! • Heating Up H2O • Glowing Firefly Petunias  Do you have Mushrooms growing in your lawn? Wondering if they're good or bad? Learn all about it during our first segment! Honey dew apples & ants! A listener has ants all over their apple tree. It's not the ants but the honey do. We'll explain in our second segment! Last week we talked about how to change Mop Type Hydrangeas pink to blue! The world of Hydrangeas are made up of more then mophead varieties. Panicle, Smooth In our 3rd segment we'll tell you the best choices for a living fence. Our Spring has been cool and wet!! We've been having an easy time when it comes to watering our yards. That is coming to an end and it may catch you off guard! As temperatures heat up your plants may start to wilt! We'll give keys to care for your plants as summer starts to move in during our 4th segment. In our final segment! We have an update about the Firefly Glow in the dark petunia. Our plants have arrived and we'll share with you our latest information. Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley Saturdays at 8am 860am WWDB-AM Saturday at 6am & 5pm 93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word"....   NYC Tri-State Area Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len and Julio are your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations.   Your hosts, Len Schroeder & Julio Zamora Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center. Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Julio Zamora has worked within Bloomers Nursery Department for over a decade and is a life-long gardener. Julio's unique passion for customers inspires Gardeners of all ages to try new things. His relaxed friendly demeanor and enthusiastic joy when discussing the benefits of gardening is inspirational. Julio's authentic love and concern for people makes him and exceptional individual and host!   Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer's Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you're from! You can also write to len@bloomers.com or julio@bloomers.com

Our Spring look-ins continue with the Florida Gators! Can Billy Napier survive the toughest football schedule ever imagined? We find out from David Waters from Gators Breakdown. Presented by Belly Up Sports! Watch - Florida Gators Spring look-in with David Waters from Gators Breakdown! (youtube.com) Social Media: The South Endzone (@SouthEndzonePod) / X (twitter.com) Jason Bailey (@JasonBailey47) / X (twitter.com) Eric Mulhair (South Endzone Pod/BellyUp Sports) (@EricMulhair) / X (twitter.com) Alexandra (@alliepisarik19) / X (twitter.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello everyone! Happy April! This week's episode is perfect for this time of year when it is Spring and we're all feeling exhausted from winter. Post pandemic, burnout has reached record levels in staff working in healthcare around the world. Dr Claire Ashley is a GP, burnout specialist and clinical entrepreneur on a mission to help overwhelmed professionals, entrepreneurs and businesses to recognise, prevent and overcome burnout and other mental wellbeing problems in the workplace. In this episode, we cover how to recognise burnout, how we can prevent and treat it. ** Our Spring conference is on 10th May in Cambridge ** To register click here   Follow the Medical Women's Federation on social media: Website: Click here to join the Medical Women's Federation or sign up to our free newsletter Twitter: @medicalwomenuk Instagram: @medicalwomenuk Facebook: MedWomen   For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email admin@medicalwomensfederation.org.uk  To get in touch about the podcast, email medicalwomenpodcast@gmail.com  This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Dr Kethaki Bhayankaram.

Our Spring previews continue this week with the Florida State Seminoles. How can they replace so many superstars that are off to the NFL Draft? How will Mike Norvell utilize DJU? Can he unlock the potential we saw from him as a freshman? Who will he throw to? Can the defense still be elite? Find out here with special guest Logan Robinson from NoleGameday.com! Presented by Belly Up Sports! Watch - Florida State Football Chat with Logan Robinson from Nole Gameday! (youtube.com) Social Media: The South Endzone (@SouthEndzonePod) / X (twitter.com) Jason Bailey (@JasonBailey47) / X (twitter.com) Eric Mulhair (South Endzone Pod/BellyUp Sports) (@EricMulhair) / X (twitter.com) Alexandra (@alliepisarik19) / X (twitter.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There has been dramatic surge in buyer activity in Regional Queensland, converting the recovery we recorded three months ago into a potential boom market.   The number of locations with rising markets has increased significantly, while locations with negative trends have decreased.   Three months ago in the Spring 2023 edition of the Price Predictor Index we commented that    Regional Queensland had emphatically joined the comeback theme which dominated national property markets, recovering from the bottom of the trough experienced earlier in the year.   Our Spring 2023 survey revealed a dramatic turnaround of the rapid downward slide which marked the previous 12 months.    Since then, Regional Queensland markets have gone to the next level, with previous recovering markets converting into rising ones, and locations which were previously plateau or declining markets transforming into recovering ones.   Now, 76% of Regional Queensland locations have positive classifications (rising, consistency or recovering), compared with 67% three months ago and just 32% six months ago.   The number of rising markets has increased from just 16 in the Winter 2023 survey to 37 in the Spring 2023 survey and now 93 in this new Summer 2023-24 survey.   Some of the key Regional Queensland centres are now booming markets, while others are in the recovery phase and heading in that direction. Very few have yet to get on board with the trend of positive markets, with just 13 locations across Regional Queensland classified as declining markets, compared with 86 in our Winter 2023 survey six months ago.   The Gold Coast is at the forefront of the Regional Queensland revival: of the 49 suburbs in our analysis, 46 have positive classifications, including 23 which are ranked as rising markets.   The Sunshine Coast market is on the recovery path but less advanced than the Gold Coast. Of the 46 Sunshine Coast locations in our analysis, 32 have positive classifications, but as yet only 11 are ranked as rising markets, while 18 are recovering. There remain 13 locations with negative classifications, compared with only three on the Gold Coast.   Other regional cities which are well advanced in the return to growth markets include Cairns (20 of 28 suburbs have positive rankings) and Gladstone (12 of 14 are positive).   Key regional centres which are heading towards growth but are dominated at this stage by recovering suburbs include Mackay, Bundaberg, Fraser Coast and Townsville.   Rockhampton remains patchy, though largely positive.   Toowoomba has been a national standout in the past couple of years, but may be moderating: 10 of its 25 locations now have negative classifications. A resurgence is likely when major new infrastructure projects get under way.  

The remarkable steadiness for which the Adelaide market is renowned continues, with our latest survey of market activity showing that most suburbs in the South Australian capital have busy markets and rising prices. Consistency has become the key defining feature of the Adelaide market. Our Spring survey found that while there are relatively few suburbs classified as rising markets in Adelaide, there are large numbers of consistency suburbs – with steady sales levels over the past few years. Overall, seven out of 10 suburbs have positive rankings – which is one of the highest in the nation. There are three key factors which underpin ongoing demand in the Adelaide market. One is that South Australia is one of the nation's strongest economies and continues to thrive on the state's innovation in the areas of technology and alternative energy, as well as being a key location for education and the Defence industry. Another big factor is affordability. Despite recent good growth, Adelaide is considerably cheaper than Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Canberra. Homes in Adelaide are around half the price of Sydney's. Adelaide and Perth are the only capital cities in Australia where you can still find a good supply of houses in the $300,000s and $400,000s. The third factor about Adelaide is the resilience and consistency of its market. In 2022, when prices generally fell in the bigger cities, Adelaide continued to deliver price growth. And that steady performance has continued in 2023. In the first nine months of this year, the median house price for Adelaide rose 5.3%, according to CoreLogic, while the median unit price increased 6.1%, which was above the national average. And Adelaide continues to have one of the tightest rental markets anywhere in the nation. The national vacancy rate, according to SQM Research, is 1.1% - but Adelaide is less than half that national average, at 0.5%. As a result, residential rents in Adelaide have increased more than 10% in the past 12 months. Overall, Adelaide presents as one of Australia's strongest markets, with consistency of performance its defining characteristic.

Hey friends, a few quick announcements: Our Spring into Summer Sale is happening in the shop right now, this week only. And it includes our brand new line of full Showit and WordPress website designs, add-on pages, and guides that you can customize in Canva. But you'll be able to save on anything in the shop this week from a new website design to semi-custom brand or add-on page like a pricing page. All of our designs come with step-by-step tutorials teaching you how to customize and set things up. If you want a website that does the hard work for you while you're enjoying the beach or the pool or just otherwise enjoying summertime, be sure to check out the new website designs over at daveyandkrista.com We are coming up on our 200th podcast episode and are in the process of making a few changes. We want to hear from you about what you'd like to hear on the podcast—whether that be guest or content recommendations, an idea for new segments like Q&As, live episodes—let us know your ideas by DMing us on Instagram @daveyandkrista And lastly, we are hosting a 5-day email marketing challenge starting Monday, June 5th. Sign-up at daveyandkrista.com/email-marketing for more details. If you're interested in finally getting your email list up-and-running and understanding why email marketing is crucial for many businesses, go to daveyandkrista.com/email-marketing and sign-up for our 5 day challenge.And if you enjoy this podcast, please consider leaving us a review at Apple Podcasts. We'll be back next week with all new content!

Our Spring of Prequels continues as we reconsider the most maligned Star Wars entry, ATTACK OF THE CLONES! Begun, the Clone Wars have as George Lucas doubles down on his bold vision for Star Wars and a digital cinema future with this sometimes clunky but always admirably defiant chapter. Join us to find out if we truly, deeply love AOTC or if the dark side still clouds everything!

Our Spring menu is LIVE! New salads are on the menu, along with a new pasta dish made with Chef Alan's Pecan Pesto! Ben and Chef Dan discuss the changes, and the "why" and "how" behind the ideas. They also jump into the mailbag for a NICE Yelp review...that leads into good times had at Red's Eats...Maine's #1 Lobster Roll during our Maine Summer Series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi there!Our Spring 2023 season of the Salt + Spine podcast kicks off right here, right now, with a marvelous returning guest: the delightful Claire Saffitz.In today's episode, Claire and I discuss:* How she's worked to create dessert recipes that speak to everyone—from sweet to tart, simple to complex.* The impact of the pandemic on her creative process as she embarked on writing book No. 2, What's for Dessert.* Which cookbook authors inspire Claire, and which books she turns to time and again—including community cookbooks!* Her advice to home bakers, based on years of creating recipes for curious novices looking for a boost.Plus, as always, we put Claire to the culinary test in our signature game.The Book!We

From Defeated to Inspired is a 6 week program for neurodivergent folks of all genders who've been working to understand themselves and their neurodiversity, but are getting sucked into overwhelm when negotiating family, friends, work, school, and all the other demands of life. Our Spring cohort is open for registration until Friday, 3/18 : https://www.neurodiverging.com/group-coaching-neurodivergent/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neurodiverging/message

Hello! Sorry the podcast is a bit late this week, Nuthana was working nights and had changeover to a new hospital and didn't quite manage to get the episode sorted to come out on time. She's embracing being a recovering perfectionist and accepting that it's better late than never! She also knows that you will understand and forgive her - she's trying to model that it's ok to be imperfect and that looking after herself is also important. This week we're thinking about careers and the questions we should ask ourselves, with career coach Laura Cloke. Laura guides us through the things we should consider when we think about our careers, how to find what we enjoy and the importance of thinking of ourselves as a whole person. We hope you enjoy the episode! **MWF International's Women's Day Raffle ** It's IWD on 8th March and the MWF conference on the 17th March. We'll be drawing a raffle at the conference, and 80% of proceeds will be donated to the Tearfund Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal. Prizes include a career coaching session, money planner, confidence programme, vouchers and books! To buy tickets: https://www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/raffle MWF Spring conference: Our Spring conference will be held online on the 17th March and recorded for those who cannot attend on the day. We're making this as accessible as possible for everyone! https://www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/news-events/conference Follow the Medical Women's Federation on social media: Website: Click here to join the Medical Women's Federation or sign up to our free newsletter Twitter: @medicalwomenuk Instagram: @medicalwomenuk Facebook: MedWomen For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email admin@medicalwomensfederation.org.uk To get in touch about the podcast, email medicalwomenpodcast@gmail.com This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Dr Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

Our Spring arc has ended, and it's time to welcome in Summer! Join us for a special check-in episode, where we chat candidly as players about the events of our first arc and share our hopes for the next chapter of the campaign. Please note that this episode contains spoilers for the events of Favor, Episodes 1-27.  Join the Venture Maidens Discord here. Support Venture Maidens on Patreon Get merch and learn more at our website Follow us on Twitter @venturemaidens Follow us on Instagram @venturemaidens DM is Celeste Conowitch (@cconowitch) Aoife Flannery is Sage Stafford (@staffofsage) Lluvyras 'Lu' Ssath is Katie Budabin (@lazy_mermaiden) Fittonia 'Toni' Silvertail is Naseem Etemad (@nas_ghoul) Theme Music by Emily Meo Additional Music by Tabletop Audio

Our Spring concert series begins with the vibrant Kaha Trio, all students from the University of Auckland School of music. They start with Bach's unique and beautiful fifth cello suite. They follow with Beethoven's piano sonata no 24 in F# major which, according to Carl Czerny, Beethoven singled out along with the “Appassionata” as one of his favourite sonatas. Chopin‘s Andante spianato et grande polonaise brilliante op. 22 for piano will draw the listeners in with its dreamy opening movement contrasted with the dramatic dance movement.

Italy is a fascinating country known for its rich culture, the birthplace of western society, and of course, amazing food. In our latest podcast episode, we sit down with our Rome Program Director, Dr. Larry Peck to hear what life is like in Italy and what it's like to study abroad in Rome. Show Notes: Show Notes For more information, check us out online at landli.org/ Subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter or follow us on Instagram.  Our Spring 2023 applications will be closing on November 1st. If you have ever thought about studying abroad with us, now is the time to apply. The link to apply is here in our show notes. Do us a favor and subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Thanks for listening, and see you next time.

Rumours of the death of the Melbourne market have been greatly exaggerated. While media is full of feverish headlines and soundbites about falling demand and collapsing prices, our research proves it simply isn't so. The Melbourne market is renowned for its resilience in tough times and our latest quarterly survey has confirmed it, with busy sales activity and solid price outcomes – particularly in the cheaper markets. Our Spring 2022 quarterly survey has found 193 suburbs with persistently good sales activity – only 1 less than in our Winter Survey 3 months ago. This is despite the disruption of rising interest rates, cost-of-living pressures and persistently negative media. That so many Melbourne locations have been able to maintain forward momentum, despite all the negative forces, is testimony to the strength of the city, which was named as the nation's No.1 growth economy in the July 2022 edition of the State of the States report by CommSec. Whether it's the cheaper outer ring areas, the popular middle Melbourne suburbs or the inner-city apartment precincts, there's still plenty of life in the Melbourne property market, so grab your copy of the new edition of Top 5 Melbourne Hotspots, which feature the best prospects in this consistent market.

Artist Ntxoo (pronounced "un-Zong") joins DKleine to talk about how her work is used as a tool to advocate for a range of causes, from police abolition to LGBTQIA+ rights to fighting against fascism in Myanmar. She shares about her creations in the traditional space before discussing her recently sold-out "Our Spring was Endless" Async Art blueprint NFT charity project. Sponsored by the https://koii.network/ NFP with DKleine is brought to you by the Koii network at https://koii.network/ and Atomic Zombies at atomiczombies.io -- Create atomic NFTs and earn Koii tokens with views of your work! You can find everything DKleine is doing in the Web3 space at https://linktr.ee/DKleine

Suzanne and Ruth are joined by Ntxoo Tori Hong, an Asian-American digital artist and illustrator. Ntxoo's most recent project: ‘Our Spring was Endless', is an initiative through which she collaborated with Karen & Dawei poet, Thet-Htar. 'Our Spring was Endless' is a wholly unique generative NFT collaboration using art and blockchain technology to support women and children from Myanmar's Karen State displaced by the military junta. It is a collection that centralizes the power of memory, using words and images in lockstep. Each minted NFT features a single hand-drawn house and artifacts from Burmese history, bordered with the English and Burmese poetry of Thet-Htar. Her words colour each image uniquely, imbuing them with the pain of hindsight, the bravery of resistance, and the ache of abnormality. 100% of the primary proceeds from this generative fundraiser will go to emergency aid for displaced Karen women and children via 501(c)(3) fiscally-sponsored charity Karen Women's Organization, a woman's community-based organization that provides emergency aid to 80,000+ displaced Karen people. Here Ntxoo discusses the initiative, her desire to bring the fight for Myanmar to Web3, explains how blockchain and NFT technology works (to a very confused Suzanne and Ruth!), and speaks about her allyship with the people of Myanmar and wanting to honour the martyrs of the revolution.The ah nah: Conversations with Myanmar podcast was born from a desire to bring into public consciousness the atrocities that are currently being committed in Myanmar (also known as Burma). Our goal is simply to keep the conversation going, and to let the people of Myanmar know that they have not been forgotten. You can continue to support the people of Myanmar by keeping this conversation going. You can subscribe to this podcast on all major podcasting apps, including Apple, Spotify and Acast. You can also follow us on all our social media pages, linked below. If you'd like to reach out, please email us or fill out this form to add your voice to the conversation (https://tinyurl.com/3ee7ssm9).Credits:Song: Kabar Makyay Bu (Until the End of the World), was written and recorded by Naing Myanmar, it became the revolutionary anthem of the 1988 pro-democracy movement and could be heard once again all over Myanmar during the 2021 Coup. Naing Myanmar maintains that the song is no longer his, since the '88 uprising “it belongs to everyone”.Graphics: SelinaXinSound Effects: https://mixkit.co*Special thanks to Ntxoo Tori Hong, Thet Htar and Angelina Hong for this wonderful initiative, and to all those who continue to find ways to raise awareness and financial support for the people of Myanmar. We are so grateful to Ntxoo for adding her voice to the conversation. You can check out ‘Our Spring was Endless' here: https://ntxoo.art/our-spring/Follow ah nah:instagram.com/ahnahpodcastfacebook.com/ahnahpodcasttwitter.com/ahnahpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First week in "A Generous Life." Our Spring series. Follow us @southcoastchristian to stay connected. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Culture Friday, Mary Reichard and Myrna Brown talk to theologian Katie McCoy about messages that teach women to view themselves as objects; Collin Garbarino reviews the new action-adventure rom-com, The Lost City; and your Listener Feedback. Plus: gone to the gulls, and the Friday morning news.Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. Additional support comes from Crossway, publisher of Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. Crossway.org And from Heart of Dakota, providing Christ-centered, literature-based homeschool curriculum. Featuring open-and-go daily plans, engaging books, and fun activities with God's Word at the heart, our award-winning curriculum will take you all the way from preschool through high school. With Heart of Dakota, you'll love learning again! Our Spring sale runs Thursday through Sunday with coupon code SPRING22 at heartofdakota.com.

Anna Johansen Brown reports on an unusual, long-term side effect of COVID-19 called parosmia; Mary Reichard talks to Ryan Brobst about the war on the ground in Ukraine; and Paul Butler reports on the other March madness gripping the world of soccer. Plus: commentary from Cal Thomas, tiger trouble, and the Thursday morning news.Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. Additional support comes from Heart of Dakota, providing Christ-centered, literature-based homeschool curriculum. Featuring open-and-go daily plans, engaging books, and fun activities with God's Word at the heart, our award-winning curriculum will take you all the way from preschool through high school. With Heart of Dakota, you'll love learning again! Our Spring sale runs Thursday through Sunday with coupon code SPRING22 at heartofdakota.com. And from Crossway, publisher of Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. Crossway.org

On Washington Wednesday, analysis of the Biden administration's attempt to revive the Iran nuclear deal; on World Tour, Afghan girls return to school; and a group of bell ringers keeping alive a 17th century tradition. Plus: commentary from Joel Belz, a million dollar comic, and the Wednesday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. Additional support comes from Crossway, publisher of Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. Crossway.org And from Heart of Dakota, providing Christ-centered, literature-based homeschool curriculum. Featuring open-and-go daily plans, engaging books, and fun activities with God's Word at the heart, our award-winning curriculum will take you all the way from preschool through high school. With Heart of Dakota, you'll love learning again! Our Spring sale runs Thursday through Sunday with coupon code SPRING22 at heartofdakota.com.

How the church can step in to help amid a shortage of social workers, a new state law in Indiana helps protect freedom of speech on campus, and astronomy enthusiasts attempt to count the stars. Plus: commentary from Kim Henderson, missing teeth, and the Tuesday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. Additional support comes from Heart of Dakota, providing Christ-centered, literature-based homeschool curriculum. Featuring open-and-go daily plans, engaging books, and fun activities with God's Word at the heart, our award-winning curriculum will take you all the way from preschool through high school. With Heart of Dakota, you'll love learning again! Our Spring sale runs Thursday through Sunday with coupon code SPRING22 at heartofdakota.com.And from Crossway, publisher of Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. Crossway.org

On Legal Docket, Mary Reichard dives into a Supreme Court case considering whether physicians should go to prison for prescribing opioids; on the Monday Moneybeat, Nick Eicher talks to financial analyst David Bahnsen about the latest economic news; and on History Book, Harrison Watters covers important dates from history. Plus: Cheerleader save, and the Monday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. ​​Additional support comes from Crossway, publisher of Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. Crossway.org And from Heart of Dakota, providing Christ-centered, literature-based homeschool curriculum. Featuring open-and-go daily plans, engaging books, and fun activities with God's Word at the heart, our award-winning curriculum will take you all the way from preschool through high school. With Heart of Dakota, you'll love learning again! Our Spring sale runs Thursday through Sunday with coupon code SPRING22 at heartofdakota.com.

Do you love Brené Brown's Dare to Lead™ work as much as we do? Or, have you heard of her work but want to know more about what it entails? In today's podcast episode, we are delighted to welcome our own Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and 10X Leadership Lab Partner, Ashley Andersen. A leadership coach for nearly a decade, Ashley's coaching style combines deep inquiry, bold reflections, and compassionate accountability. She helps leaders show up courageously, grow with each experience, and create meaningful connections with their work and those around them.  Today, we dive into the meaning of courage and how it relates to Brene' Brown's research. Ashley guides us through what to expect in our 10-week Dare to Lead™ workshop that sets you on the path to becoming a courageous leader. - - - In this episode: 5:00- The great responsibility and impact of a leader 9:30- Who is Brené Brown and why is her work is so important? 13:45- Courage is a learned skill set—we can all be courageous leaders 25:30- Discovering your vulnerability as a leader and turning it into conscious leadership 30:30- The leadership change that happens through the Dare to Lead™ program Are you ready to become a courageous leader and Dare to Lead™ Trained? In our 10-week Dare to Lead™ workshop, we'll walk you through how to rumble with vulnerability, lead from values, intentionally cultivate trust, and pick yourself up from falls and failures. This experience is a highly interactive, fully remote course. You will join an intimate cohort of extraordinary leaders from diverse backgrounds, teams, and organizations, and meet weekly to build the skills necessary to evolve into a more courageous and conscious leader. Our Spring cohort begins April 6th so be sure to sign up today! Plus, as a thank you to our podcast listeners, use Code: 10XIMPACT for 10% off the program!

Today Anna and Nathan assess the tech use of their own family using the resources of RESET and RENEW. They talk Tool & Drool Tech, and Nathan gets one spontaneous (but timely) reminder that just because he talks healthful tech for a living doesn't mean he's flawless with his own tech use. Resources mentioned: .Our Spring calendar is filling quickly. We are currently booking mid-May and into summer. Want Nathan to speak at your school, church, or home group co-op? Email nathan@gospeltech.net or visit the website. .Do you have someone you'd like us to interview? Send ideas to us: nathan@gospeltech.net or on social media @lovegodusetech (instagram, facebook) .A Gospel basis for Digital Trust: Luke 16:10. .Want help having tech conversations? We've made a small group curriculum for that! Part 1 helps you talk it out as parents, Part 2 helps you walk it out as a family. Check it out here!

Our Spring series will be rooted in the Old Testament book of Daniel. Daniel and his 3 friends are ripped out of the land of Israel and dragged into Babylon, the land of Israel's greatest enemy. They're re-homed, re-named, re-educated, and re-purposed as Babylon attempts to stamp out their Jewish identity and their allegiance to Yahweh. But God speaks a surprising word to his people: “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf” (Jeremiah 29.7). So here's the tension: These exiles must love and bless Babylon, but they must not be conformed to it; They must serve their enemies, but they cannot serve their gods; They must be among the Babylonians for the good of the Babylonians, all while maintaining their allegiance to God and their identity as his people. Our series will explore these tensions, looking at how the New Testament writers pick up this biblical theme of exile as a way to describe the Christian experience. This week we explore the de-forming influences of our own Babylon, discuss what faithfulness looks like, and celebrate the good news that Jesus is on his throne sovereignly orchestrating all of history for his glory and our joy!

Our Spring semester of uGroups is officially underway, and Pastor Brad Carignan talks about how important it is to be in community in this week's message! For more information on our church community and to learn how you can get involved, visit our website at https://uncommonchurch.tv. Have a prayer request? We would love to partner with you in prayer! Let us know how we can be praying with you by visiting https://uncommonchurch.tv/connect and filling out a Connect Card.

Our Spring 2021 Cultivate Book Study has Sandals Church Women learning what the Bible says about being forgiven and forgiving others. Our teaching team is joining us on the podcast for REAL conversations on the personal side of their forgiveness journey - how they've practiced it, what they've learned and things they wish they knew sooner. We're kicking off this month-long series as Tammy Brown, Lori Albee and Melody Workman talk about being brave, believing the best and becoming women who willingly say “I'm sorry.”

The whole Sound Mind team gets together to have a grand conversation about what we have in store for the months ahead. We also discuss why mental health is important and why we believe our work should be supported.Our Spring fundraiser was launched about a week ago, and we need your help reaching our $3,000 goal! You can help us out at www.soundmindmusician.org/donate Any gift is transformative to us at this moment. Visit out website www.soundmindmusician.org for more information.

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Empowered By Design with Dr. Lyz:  Episode 14. Styling your Image Vision with Samantha Arnold   Dr. Lyz: Licensed Psychologist, Wellness Entrepreneur, Relationship Specialist Empowered By Design Podcast: Psychology, Mental Health and Wellness, Relationships, Mindset, Self-care, Self-reflection and Personal Growth   Your unique image is about your personal style of fashion and SO MUCH MORE!!  Join me on this week’s episode of the Empowered By Design podcast and get to know Samantha Arnold, Certified Image Consultant at Visionistas By Design Wellness Boutique. We chat about our shared passion for empowering you to look and feel your best and for styling your image vision with confidence and authenticity so that your true beauty shines through!  Samantha shares tips on styling your Spring Wardrobe with Closet Must-Haves - Classic Pieces and What’s Trending?!!  She outlines our Style By Design categories and discusses how to make them work for your personality and lifestyle.     Find Samantha: Instagram: @Samantha_Antonia and @VisionistasByDesign Website: https://www.visionistasbydesign.com/samantha-arnold Subscribe to my email list to stay connected: www.DrLyz.com www.VisionistasByDesign.com   -------------------   Follow Dr. Lyz on Social Media:   Instagram   Facebook   LinkedIn YouTube     Pinterest     Clubhouse: follow @DrLyz   Welcome to the podcast, Empowered By Design with Dr. Lyz!  This podcast is designed to bring you psychological concepts in real life terms that will empower a proactive approach to mental health and overall wellness while inviting balance, harmony, connection, and joy.  Lyz DeBoer Kreider, PhD, a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and New York, shares her passion for helping you pursue your dreams and goals for life and love with intentional vision.  This podcast is about finding and owning your power right now and using it for good, by nurturing the connection of body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit. Empowered By Design Podcast delivers psychological concepts and practical strategies with a real life approach, designed to empower: Health and wellness, Optimal performance, Authentic connection with yourself and others, and purposeful, joyful living. Dr. Lyz’s Signature Formula: Dream, Design, Deliver Dream - Reflect, Attend Design - Create, Plan Deliver - Align, Evaluate, Celebrate   Download a free guide for using the Dream, Design, Deliver Signature Formula to pursue your dreams with Intentional Vision. And check out Episode 4 for more information on Dr. Lyz’s Dream, Design, Deliver Signature Formula. Show Notes for Episode 14 of Empowered By Design Podcast with Dr. Lyz:   Styling your Image Vision with Samantha Arnold Taking a Break from the Series - Designing and Delivering the Life of Your Dreams - Body, Mind, Heart, Soul, and Spirit (Episode 9) Tuning in to your body’s language - Nurture the Body (Episode 10) Balancing and Nurturing your Beautiful Mind (Episode 11) Last week’s Episode - Creating and Maintaining Health Relationships with Aliya Kenyatta (Episode 12) Trusting the Heart and Working your Vision - Nurture the Heart (Episode 13) Meet Samantha Arnold, Visionistas By Design Wellness Boutique - Samantha Arnold is a Certified Image Consultant who specializes in empowering clients to look and feel their best. She will collaborate with you to embrace your look, enhance your style, and design your ideal image.  Samantha uses her extensive knowledge of the fashion industry, and her expertise in glamour and style, to help you develop your dream look and to wear it with confidence and authenticity.  Samantha offers personalized image consultation packages to:  Revamp your wardrobe Enhance your style Organize your closet   Style By Design Categories - Style yourself with authenticity, confidence, and vision! Comfy Comfy Casual Casual Glam Glam Styling Your Image Vision for the Spring Season Closet Must-Haves Classic Pieces for your Wardrobe White T Jeans Fitted Blazer Tailored Dress Pants Button-up Shirt Little Black Dress! Trench Coat (Camel) Tote Bag Sunglasses What’s Trending? Long (Flowy) Skirts Maxi Dresses Rompers High waisted shorts “Mom shorts” Invitation: Think back into your closet, wardrobe - envision a favorite piece from your past What do you love in your closet right now? How can you use pieces in your closet right now to style your image vision? Envision one thing that you want to add to your wardrobe this season.  Use Samantha’s suggestions or come up with one that reflects your unique style vision! Fashion Fridays With Samantha Weekly Style Inspiration Posts on Instagram and Facebook Join us for our upcoming special FREE event -the Visionistas By Design Virtual Vision Board Party: Vision of Love, Vision of Style, Vision of Grace Our Virtual Vision Board Party will take place via video conference on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7pm EST. The party will be recorded, so even if you can’t attend live, you will receive the recorded party to view at your convenience. But, you must be on the list! Also coming up soon - Our Spring 2021 Healthy By Design Group Coaching Program  Get on the Waiting List and skip to the front of the line for registration and details/info. Registration begins on April 27, 2021 and the 6-week group coaching program kicks off on May 4, 2021!! Samantha is getting married!! Samantha and Dr. Lyz share their wedding proposal stories and invite you to reflect on your proposal/love story Contest - The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful We want to hear about your proposal/love story - or - your heartbreak/disaster date story. Send us your stories for the chance to win an amazing discount on the 2021 Healthy By Design Group Coaching Program 2 winners will be selected and notified via email Entries must be received by Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 8pm EST This or That?! With Samantha Arnold Next week, we continue our series - Designing and Delivering the Life of Your Dreams - Body, Mind, Heart, Soul, and Spirit (Episode 9) Next episode - Nurturing your Soul

Overview: We are pleased to introduce you to Andrea Lembkey, the owner of Dermaplus Skin + Body in San Francisco, CA. Andrea fits right in (SO well that we think she may be Kasey’s SF clone) and shares with us how she manages to make her business blossom and keep things innovative. Andrea has a HUGE announcement that will inspire you to hold things loosely so you can evolve both personally and professionally. We hope you all had a great Easter and we reminisce on our Easters past + share some of our favorite spring/summer products so check for those codes below. Today We Talk About: The honest pros and cons of going out on your own as an esthetician Advice for estheticians trying to find their way in the industry Getting in touch with yourself personally so that you can become more intuitive professionally Shop skincare and accessories from Dermaplus at a discount! Try the hydrating toner+ bamboo scrub + reusable cotton rounds or La Glace Skin Rollers created by Andrea herself. Use code DERMAPLUS15 for 15% off your order We are loving Zinc it Over & Seaside Escape SPF Mist this spring. Try it out with code: GLOW10 for 10% off Links Mentioned: Shop Pure Enzymes and Detox Mask with code SATC25 at Cosmedix for 25% your order This is the LAST week to sign up for the Skin and the City Membership for $1.99! Our Spring issue launches April 14th, don’t miss out! Be sure to follow along in your print or digital version of Skin and the City magazine As a Skin and the City listener, enjoy 5% off the whole website HERE For additional discounts, exclusive offers and so much more, sign up for the Skin and the City membership HERE To support this podcast, you can go HERE Don't forget, you can also text us! We would love to hear from you 747.444.4318 If you have 2 seconds to write us a review HERE, Screenshot it and email it to us at magazine@glowskincarela.com and our Kim-Tern will be shipping you some goodies like the Manolo Blahnik - Awaken Mask pins! They’re super adorable! You’re gonna love them! Be sure to follow and tag us on IG! @skin.andthe.cityand @glowskincarela Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/skinandthecity/support

This episode is all about your spring! No, I don't mean the spring going on outside, I mean the one going on in your body-just keeping track of notes so that I am not too long-winded! Spring 101! What do you need to know about your Spring? This is the time in your cycle, you'll have had your Bleed (your winter), you will feel your energy rising (hormones are rising!) you'll feel more energetic, feel much more vibrant and not as sluggish or tired as you had in your Winter. This will last about 7-10 days and is called the Follicular phase (not that I talk about what is going on in that way!). Imagine what is happening in Spring outside? In the wild? Things are blossoming, growing, more energy-you are excited to tackle new projects, you feel more optimistic. Spring is a great time to: *Start a new healthy eating kick *Exercise regime *New project You have so much energy to do this now. Start small and find accountability. You feel more confident and more like you can get things done-estrogen is rising and our Follicle Stimulating Hormone is on the rise here. You will feel like you are moving more towards being out-you are a sleepy flower blossoming. Schedule busy weeks during this time as well as Summer-tapping into your natural energy stores. Momentum and motivation are SUPER high right now. If you are working on a business, you have: *More clarity *Mental focus is high *Much more independent *Physical stamina Think big bold action, working longer hours. If you don't work for yourself but can arrange projects to fall during this time-I highly recommend it! Look at your calender-SCHEDULE IT OUT. Grounding into our body and noticing your patterns, you will start to notice higher energy and lower energy. Be mindful of our inner critic and overdoing it! If you have a surge of energy be mindful of not using it all and burning out. Slow and steady wins the race! You don't have to push so much just because you can. Contemplate new ideas and don't jump the gun too quickly. Let them percolate like a good cup of coffee. Spring is a great time to start to shrug off the fog and this helps us to get those projects off the ground. To help me shrug off that fog, I take walks in the morning (especially during the actual spring!). It allows me to get some movement in my day and to contemplate my schedule. The Spring allows you to understand your limits, to keep the tenderness, playfulness, it is precious, this learning of our boundaries. The next episode is all about Self-Care in Our Spring! sarahbyrnewellness.com instagram.com/iamsarahbyrne For your FREE cycle tracker and journal prompts

Our Spring previews continue as we take a trip to the Boot to talk about the Jags. Then we head to the 3rd Ward of Houston to discuss the Tigers of TSU. Our journey into the unknown of a Spring season continues. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/swactalk/support

Our Spring 21 previews continue as we take a trip to the Delta to visit MVSU and then we head to Texas to talk about those Prairie View Panthers. Also I will share my thoughts on how teams will approach this Spring season. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/swactalk/support

Description: Join us this Saturday, May 23 at 9 p.m. for a virtual Unorthodox live show! It's part of the Great Big Jewish Food Fest, and we'll be joined by Bon Appetit's Sarah Jampel. RSVP at bit.ly/unorthodoxjff. This week on Unorthodox, we're heading to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Our guest is Matthew Weiner, creator of the TV series 'Mad Men' and 'The Romanoffs,' and an executive producer on 'The Sopranos.' He joins us to talk about why everyone seems to be binge-watching 'Mad Men' lately, as well as what the show had to say about Jewishness in 1960s America, and how it was influenced by his own Jewish upbringing in Los Angeles. Be part of our upcoming special episodes! Do you have a story to share about a lesser-known Jewish community for our Jews Around the World episode? Send us your story as a voicemail at (914) 570-4869, or record a voice memo on your phone and email it to unorthodox@tabletmag.com. Our Spring and Summer 2020 tour events have been postponed. Stay tuned for updates on rescheduled dates, and join our Facebook group to see much more of us and connect with other listeners. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies here. Sponsors: Harry's: Get a free Harry's trial shave set—complete with a 5-blade razor with a weighted ergonomic grip, rich lathering shave gel, and a travel blade cover—at harrys.com/unorthodox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now more than ever we must allow our faith to be stronger than our fears. Fear has been around since the beginning of time. So the question is will we allow fear to rule over our lives or will we allow our faith to be stronger than a two edged sword? Tune in to help you stay motivated and encouraged.    Head over to christinamecklenburg.com to receive updates on our show.  Our Spring collection for IZABELLA + EVE launches this Wed, April 15th ay 10am PST. Come check out our American brand and see our new beautiful pieces at www.izabellaeve.com

Blair can’t see his hands in front of his face. He can’t see the ground beneath his feet. He’s not in the dark: he’s in a thick cloud of fog. And then a stranger’s voice emerges from the mist, guiding him… can he trust her? This story comes to us from Australia, the original Upside Down. Thank you, Blair, for sharing your story with Spooked. Produced by Greta Weber, original score by Lauryn Newson Artwork by Sanaa Khan Spooked Season 4 - Episode 4 Spooked Season IV is ALIVE. Our Spring season has 10 new episodes, each released weekly. We have another 22 coming for you in the Fall. Select episodes will be available across streaming platforms but ALL will be exclusively on Luminary. Download the Luminary mobile app or go to LuminaryPodcasts.com 

Blair can’t see his hands in front of his face. He can’t see the ground beneath his feet. He’s not in the dark: he’s in a thick cloud of fog. And then a stranger’s voice emerges from the mist, guiding him… can he trust her? This story comes to us from Australia, the original Upside Down. Thank you, Blair, for sharing your story with Spooked. Produced by Greta Weber, original score by Lauryn Newson Artwork by Sanaa Khan Season IV is ALIVE. Our Spring season has 10 new episodes, each released weekly. We have another 22 coming for you in the Fall. Select episodes will be available across streaming platforms but ALL will be exclusively on Luminary. Download the Luminary mobile app or go to LuminaryPodcasts.com #Spookedpod Season 4 - Episode 4

In Episode 11, we warmly welcome our first guests, Kate Biederman and Jen Reiter, who have deeply shaped Communities Engaging Autism's mindfulness course*. In this rich conversation, Beth, Jen, Kate and Tera unpack what mindfulness really is and the growth they've seen in themselves and others through practice. *Our Spring 2020 course has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To stay informed of future offerings, subscribe to the podcast or visit our website to subscribe to CEA's newsletter. Key quote: "People don't have less stress in their life...they're just more equipped and resourced to handle what comes." - Kate Biederman Key points: Defining mindfulness; noticing is powerful Anchoring your attention in your body; being present in the moment Consistency is key in growing self-awareness; do simple things, daily Practicing in community with other parents is powerful Show notes:  LEND Fellowship Communities Engaging Autism's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course for Parents of Kids with Special Needs Jon Kabat-Zinn Sebastian Gendry Book: How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh

We are choosing joy this morning because IT IS A GOOD DAY! Our Spring into Hollisday event goes LIVE this afternoon, Rachel and Dave take you on a quick tour of their kitchen, AND Noah Hollis makes a very important appearance this morning!  Come hang out with us weekdays LIVE at 9AM CST on Facebook and Instagram, and catch up on episodes you missed here! -- It's time to spring into savings with our first ever SPRING FLING! What exactly is a Spring Fling, you ask? It's a huge, storewide sales event where we're giving deep discounts on everything in the shop, including some brand new, never-before-seen-or-sold goodies we've been working hard on just for you! The sale starts at 12pm CST on March 23rd and goes for 24 hours, so bookmark thehollisco.com/collections/shop now and set your alarms! We'll see you there :)

Betsy keeps seeing a young girl at night in her room. She stands at the end of Betsy’s bed and stares at her. She comes back, over and over: night after night; year after year. Betsy knows she wants something, but she has to figure out what. Thank you, Betsy, for sharing your story with us! Betsy is a #Spooked listener and reached out to us to share her story. If you have a frightening tale you'd like to share, email us: spooked@snapjudgment.org  Produced by Annie Nguyen, original score by Leon Morimoto Artwork by Sanaa Khan Happy Friday the 13th, Spooksters! A whole new season of Spooked has risen. Our Spring season has 10 new episodes, each released weekly starting 3/13/20. We have another 22 coming for you in the Fall. Select episodes will be available across streaming platforms but ALL will be exclusively on Luminary. Download the Luminary mobile app or go to LuminaryPodcasts.com #Spookedpod Season 4 - Episode 1

The Price Predictor Index is a unique report in real estate investment.   The index analyses sales in every Australian suburb or town. It finds the growth patterns - the places that will soon show price growth. It also finds markets that are going backwards – the ones to avoid.   In this edition of the Price Predictor Index we can see some significant movement across Australia's various markets. MARKETS ARE SHOWING A POST-ELECTION RECOVERY It’s taking time for markets across the nation to recover from the pre-Federal Election freeze. Our Spring survey shows the first signs of revival in Sydney and Melbourne, although suburbs with declining markets still out-number those with rising sales activity. There is also growing evidence of fightback in Perth, while Queensland is showing the greatest strength among the regional markets and has overtaken Regional Victoria and Regional NSW, which have both delivered more subdued results compared to previous surveys. ADELAIDE LEADS BUT FEW HAVE NOTICED In terms of growth momentum, it’s the outstanding market in Australia, but it continues to fly under the radar and remains the nation’s most under-rated market. In the five years Hotspotting has been conducting quarterly surveys of sales activity and price trends, Adelaide has never delivered a poor result. Most cities have had peaks and troughs in that time, but Adelaide just keeps on producing steady markets with consistent demand. PRICES ARE RISING IN OVERLOOKED AREAS There’s considerably more price growth happening across the nation than most people realise. Find out how we rank the nation’s market jurisdictions on price performance (based on the percentage of locations where median prices have risen in the past 12 months). THERE ARE MAJOR CONTRASTS WITHIN LOCAL MARKETS The generalised nature of media reporting of real estate is the curse of real estate consumers. There is constant discussion of "the Australian property market" and whether "Australian house prices" are rising or falling. This ignores the multiple different scenarios playing out in individual markets around Australia at any point in time. It’s extremely rare for all our markets to be trending in the same direction or for all suburbs in a capital city to be displaying the same behaviour. For example this Spring survey provides the following assessment of suburbs across the Brisbane metro area: 21 rising markets, 103 plateau, 58 consistency, 32 declining and 5 danger markets.   GET THE REPORT TO DISCOVER :- - Our 5 Star Growth Markets - Our National Top 50 Supercharged Suburbs - Our National Top 10 Municipalities - Our National Top 50 Consistency Markets - Our State by State analysis Find out more >> https://www.hotspotting.com.au/premium-reports/price-predictor-index-2270.html

Our Spring 2019 issue celebrated our 35th anniversary by taking a look back at some of the iconic photos that have appeared in the pages of our magazine. In today's episode of JAZZIZ Not What You Think, publisher Michael Fagien sits down with two of the photographers behind those shots — Jeff Sedlik and Tom Legoff — to talk about the fascinating back stories that went into capturing those moments on film.

The Little Dream by Robin M. Eames She feels the pain before she fully wakes up, stuck in that half-space between slumber and cold daylight. For a moment she doesn't understand. Pain. A bone-deep ache—no, deeper than her bones. Soul-deep. Her eyes crack open. Fuck, it's freezing. Sylvia closes her eyes again, opens them, glares balefully at the open window. She waves a hand, hoping for a little miracle, for everything to fall into place, but the window-frame barely twitches. Might have been telekinesis, might have been her vision blurring from the pain. Her fucking useless powers are all the more fucking useless on bad pain days. She doesn't want to move, because she knows if she moves it'll get worse. She has to get out of bed. The cat needs feeding. For a moment her head is swimming, and she can't remember the cat's name. [Full transcript after the cut] Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 37! This is your host Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. We're currently running a little behind again, but should be caught up soon. Our Spring 2017 issue is now out, and that's available at glittership.com/buy for anyone who would like to read all of the stories before they come out on the podcast. Our issues are also available as a patron reward, so if you support GlitterShip via Patreon (patreon.com/keffy), you can check out the issue there. First, we'll have a poem by Joanne Rixon and a story by Robin M. Eames. Joanne Rixon lives in the Pacific Northwest with her rescue chihuahua. She mostly writes speculative fiction; this is her first published poem. You can follow her on twitter @JoanneRixon. Robin M. Eames is a 23 year old freelance writer and artist living in Sydney, Australia. They graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, majoring in History and Gender Studies. Their work has been published in Luna Station Quarterly, Glitterwolf, ARNA, Hermes, and in the anthology Broken Worlds edited by Jack Burgos. Robin uses they/them/their pronouns. Their interests include comparative mythology, queer and disability theory & activism, cats, black tea, and tattoos. You can find their twitter at @robinmarceline and their website at robinmeames.org.     I stayed up all night waiting for the election results and then... by Joanne Rixon   the morning after my skin began to peel.But I haven’t been in the sun, I said.It’s November and also I’m afraid the cancer will return.But still my fingerprints came off whole, skin curledoff my biceps in sheets.It broke at the wrinkles of my elbows, andwhere my skin was thin and dry it flaked: the tips of my hipbones,my collarbones, stretching.   My hair also fell out but that had been happeningfor weeks so it wasn’t surprising. Only the speed of it.Giant handfuls of hair clogged the drain.My scalp turned blotchy as a piebald horse,paler than new cheese, and then began to split.As more layers unloosened, detached—they got damp and rubbery the deeper they went—underneath something began to be visible:   gray-brown and nubbled surface;antler-hard to the touch, and I couldn’t stoptouching. It itched.My sister looked at me sideways, poking my shoulderto see for herself.Don’t be afraid, I told her. I’m not.I’m not afraid at all, I said.I didn’t say it. I tried to say it but I couldn’t make it wordsor anything else but small stones falling from my lips.My teeth, little diamonds, ached for somethingto bite.   END   The Little Dream by Robin M. Eames     She feels the pain before she fully wakes up, stuck in that half-space between slumber and cold daylight. For a moment she doesn't understand. Pain. A bone-deep ache—no, deeper than her bones. Soul-deep. Her eyes crack open. Fuck, it's freezing. Sylvia closes her eyes again, opens them, glares balefully at the open window. She waves a hand, hoping for a little miracle, for everything to fall into place, but the window-frame barely twitches. Might have been telekinesis, might have been her vision blurring from the pain. Her fucking useless powers are all the more fucking useless on bad pain days. She doesn't want to move, because she knows if she moves it'll get worse. She has to get out of bed. The cat needs feeding. For a moment her head is swimming, and she can't remember the cat's name. Moth. The cat's name is Moth. Sylvia moves her shoulders experimentally, and is rewarded by a sharp cracking noise. She groans, swings her legs over the edge of the bed, gets stuck. Out of breath. Moth meows plaintively from outside her bedroom door. People say that only humans can develop supercapabilities but Sylvia swears that damn cat's psychic. "Coming," she says. It's a lie. She still can't move. Fucking fibro, fucking cat, fucking Sydney winter weather, fucking rubbish excuse for telekinesis. She didn't wear pajamas to bed and there are goosebumps on her arms. She left her cane next to the front door last night. Yesterday was a 3, maybe a 4. A good day. Today's a 7. It'll be an 8 if she overexerts herself. 1 is painless. "Normal." 10, presumably, is dead. Sylvia steels herself, and then rolls off the bed and lands on the floor with a thump. She can't quite muster the energy to stand up, so she shuffles out of her bedroom on her hands and knees, naked, quietly glad that she doesn't have a housemate to witness her total lack of dignity. On a good day Sylvia can hover. Only a little, about a foot or two above the ground. Fucking typical that her powers are only functional on the days she doesn't need them. "Hello," she says to Moth. He meows at her and then licks her nose. Cane. Cat. Meds. Breakfast. Cane's next to the front door. She tries not to think about how long it takes her to get there, but things are a little easier after that; she levers herself up and hobbles vaguely into the kitchen. Moth rubs against her legs and she startles, almost falls over. Cat. Sylvia cracks open a tin of tuna and he immediately starts purring. Her meds are all the way up on the high shelf, and her shoulders protest just looking at the stretch. That was a great idea, Sylvia-of-yesterday, just bloody brilliant, put your meds where you can't reach them. Breakfast. Her mind stalls. There are eggs in the fridge but she's out of oil or butter to fry them in, there's cereal but no milk, there's bread. Toast. Toast is easy. Sylvia fumbles a knife out of the drawer, jam, the bread, and sinks to the floor, leaning against the kitchen counter. She concentrates, blinks, her eyes burn, and the toast begins to sizzle faintly. Technically it's laser vision, but Brian calls it her toast vision, because it isn't good for much else. Sometimes she can light cigarettes. Knife, jam, bread. Don’t warp the knife. Sometimes Sylvia bends cutlery when she’s stressed, or leaves little fingerprint-shaped dents in metal doorknobs. A hand tremor makes her fumble the knife, but the metal stays intact. She blinks tiredly at her toast for a moment. Bites down and savors the sour-sweetness. Lid back on the jam, jam back up on the kitchen counter. Sylvia's still sitting on the floor. The cat, finished with the tuna, wanders nonchalantly over and sits on her outstretched legs. Meds. Still on the shelf. Escitalopram, estradiol, progesterone, spironolactone, rabeprazole, riboflavin, propranolol, ibuprofen and paracetamol for moderately miserable days, tramadol for really fucking murderously miserable days. Missing a day of meds because she can't get up off the floor. It's sort of funny. Sylvia-of-yesterday was a useless bum and she's never putting her meds on the high shelf ever again. It's a 7 day. Not yet an 8. If she really concentrates… She narrows her eyes at the shelf, flicks her fingers, and her pillbox starts to wobble precariously towards her. Sylvia doesn't dare to breathe. It moves closer—closer—and then twitches and flies right across the room, smacking hard into the opposite wall. Pills scatter everywhere. The cat pounces and starts batting them about the floor. Sylvia closes her eyes, and lets her head fall backwards with a thunk. The day doesn’t really get better from there, but she manages to corral her meds, and get off the floor, eventually. Clothes. Jeans or skirt? How likely is it that she’ll get bashed today? Jeans. No energy to shave. Lydia down the road can shave by shapeshifting. Rude. There are three rubber wristbands on her dresser. One of them says SHE/HER/HERS, the second THEY/THEM/THEIRS, and the third HE/HIM/HIS. Sylvia looks at them for a moment. Contemplates. Puts on the second one. Sylvie locks the door behind them, checks their pockets—keys, wallet, phone—and limps their way to the bus stop. On the bus on the way into uni there’s a businesswoman with huge, bright white wings, one of which is in a splint. The driver argues with her momentarily about whether she should have to buy an extra ticket or not. Sylvie rolls their eyes. The winged woman bumps into several passengers, apologizes, manages to swing her wings around so that they’re not in anyone’s way. When she gets off at the next stop she leaves a thin trail of shed feathers behind her. Sylvie presses their head against the window, feels the shuddering of the bus beneath them. When they get into the lecture theatre, Brian immediately waves them over and then presents his middle finger for inspection. Sylvie raises their eyebrows, and Brian pouts. “I’ve got a papercut.” “Oh, come on—” “Please?” Sylvie grumbles under their breath, but puts their hand over Brian’s, brown over darker brown. They don’t glow, or hum, and their eyes don’t roll back into their head, but when they move their hand away Brian’s papercut is gone. Would be really fucking nice if their healing factor worked on anything worse than papercuts. Abracadabra, fibromyalgia away. The lecture is on Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Rousseau, the right to property, the right to vote, the civil rights movement, women’s rights, trans rights, super rights. Sylvie falls asleep halfway through. In the tutorial afterwards someone says “transsexuals—I’m sorry, is that the right term?” and looks at Sylvie expectantly. Brian snickers under his breath and then someone uses the word “aborigine” and he stops laughing and starts cutting into them about it. Why are the Gadigal mob so angry and drunk all the time, the student wants to know. I’ll tell you fucking why says Brian. Last week after class some fucker told Brian and Sylvie “go back to where you came from”. Brian laughed so hard that he cried, and then he yelled so much that his voice went hoarse and he sounded like Batman. Go back to where you came from, go home, get back on your boat. Sylvie used to work in a coffee shop in Surry Hills, before the fibro got so bad that they couldn’t stand for long periods. Sometimes white boys would try to flirt with them, always that expectant look, “where are you from, no, I mean where are you from”. Sylvie’s mum’s family were early settlers, Australian for four generations back, but the fifth generation were from the Pearl River Delta, so apparently that’s all that matters. Sylvie’s dad was mixed, Latino and something else, their mum wasn’t sure. His last name was Rodriguez. They met on their gap years. Where is Sylvie from? Hell if they know. Brian’s rant winds down and the other student looks thoroughly cowed. Sylvie grins at him from the corner of their mouth. Brian sits back, legs splayed open, arms thrown over the seats beside him, owning the room. “See you at the rally tomorrow?” Brian asks, when the tute finishes. “Yeah,” says Sylvie. It’s not far from the university to the hospital, but Sylvie’s back is aching, and their head is throbbing, so they catch the bus again. There’s an echoing in their ears that doesn’t bode well. Their ENT specialist isn’t sure if it’s superhearing or just hypersensitivity to light and sound, but either way it usually leads to a migraine. Most supercapabilities show up around puberty, or even earlier, but Sylvie’s powers have been popping up randomly for years. It would be fun if any of them were actually useful. The woman at reception waves Sylvie through, and they trace their way over the memorised path, through the corridors, up two floors in the lift, tap lightly on the door. “Oh, hi _________,” says Sylvie’s mum. Her voice is barely more than a whisper. “It’s Sylvie,” Sylvie corrects gently. Their mother doesn’t seem to hear them. Sylvie props their cane over the back of the visitor’s chair and sinks into it. “How are you feeling?” No answer. “Mum?” “Hmm?” She startles, eyes wide, hands moving vaguely around. “Oh, same old. They’ve got a new jelly flavor. It’s blue.” “That’s nice.” Their mother blinks, slowly. “How’s uni going?” Sylvie smiles. “It’s good. I got a distinction in my last assignment. There’s a super rights rally tomorrow.” “Supercapable,” corrects Sylvie’s mother, wrinkling her nose. Sylvie just shrugs, puts their hand over their mother’s. Lymphoma. Not much their shitty little healing factor can do about it. But maybe it helps in some small way. Their mother smiles, faintly, and starts to hum. Sylvie doesn’t recognize the tune, but it follows them out of the hospital, back to their flat, and into their dreams that night. The next day is a 6. Low-level aches all over, nausea, headache, sore throat. It’s a blessing after yesterday. Sylvie actually manages to shave and brush their teeth. Same wristband as yesterday: THEY/THEM/THEIRS. They hesitate at their wardrobe, mindful of the rally later today, but—fuck it. Skirt and leggings it is. Their shirt says IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU INSIST THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS. Their phone buzzes, and a picture of Brian pops up, tongue sticking out and green glitter on his eyelashes. The message reads: are u still coming to the rally Yes, they type back. It takes a moment for their phone to buzz again. good bring ur cane umbrella it’s going to rain later Cane umbrella defeats the purpose of the cane, Sylvie replies. Can’t use it to walk when it’s up over my ears. Who thought that was a good idea smh shut up it’s a miracle of fucking technoglogy, says Brian. *technology, says Brian. Sylvie smiles, puts their phone in their pocket, and brings a raincoat. Sylvie and Brian meet at the coffee shop around the corner from Town Hall, where the rally’s going to start. These things always take forever to get going. Sylvie would rather skip the speeches and self-congratulation at the beginning, the harping on of various activist groups, the factional side-eyeing, the pointless circulating petitions. Sylvie inhales. Coffee beans and chocolate. Scent memory to two years ago, scratchy uniform, ten hour workdays. They fumble their way into a booth seat, propping their cane up beside them, cursing when it slips and falls under the table. “You’re too young to be such a crotchety old grandma,” says Brian, then glances at their wristband. Corrects himself. “Grandperson.” “Grandparent,” says Sylvie, and flicks him on the ear. “I went on a date last night,” says Brian, waggling his eyebrows. “How’d it go?” He smiles, long and slow. Sylvie cackles. At least someone’s getting laid. The last date they went on was a mess, months ago, some girl they met on OkCupid. The girl walked through the door and her face fell like a stone. Sylvie doesn’t even know what it was—the cane, the color of their skin, their lipsticked mouth surrounded by stubble. Hell, maybe it was the bright little “super in every sense” pin on their backpack. Maybe some combination of all of them. The girl fled like her heels were on fire. They bum around in the café for a bit before they finally join the rally, a huge throng of people clutching banners and posters and shouting witty slogans about Turnbull, Baird, about the clusterfuck of the last year of Lib government, about how Tony Abbott is afraid of women, gays, supers, and people in boats. Abbott’s sister is a supercapable lesbian, Sylvie remembers. Must make for awkward family dinners. The march begins like a living thing, moving forward in slow, lurching bursts. Sylvie doesn’t even remember what this one is about—some amendment to the super anti-discrimination bill. There’s a rally every weekend these days, it feels like. Which isn’t to say that they’re not important—even just marching, even if nothing comes of it, that’s something. Even the little victories are something. It’s nice, to be surrounded like this, by people like them. People with wings and tails and weird hair and rainbow t-shirts. There’s a queer bloc marching a ways behind them, and a ways behind that there’s a group marching for supercapable refugee rights. There’s an energy in the air, something sparking and growing. And suddenly Brian is clinging hard to Sylvie’s arm and muttering, “Shit, fuck, fuckshit, it’s my fucking ex, let’s get out of here.” Sylvie follows his gaze to a young white girl with an undercut and purple eyebrows. “Your ex-girlfriend?” Sylvie asks, confused. Brian’s gay. Very, very gay. As gay as a—really very gay person. He snorts. “No, you lemon, my ex-dealer. Shit let’s get out of here before she sees us—” Too late. The girl’s eyes are widening with recognition, and she smiles, like a shark, raising her hand over her head to wave. Brian squeaks and pulls hard on Sylvie’s wrist, tugging them through the crowd, stepping on people’s feet and not bothering to apologize. There’s some sort of commotion at the side of the road, people yelling and shoving, and a kid with yellow eyes sends bright illusionary glimmers up into the air. A second later there’s a crack and a hiss and there’s white fog spreading around their legs, only the fog stings horribly, and Sylvie starts to cough, helplessly, tears streaming from their eyes. “It’s tear gas,” chokes out Brian, covering his eyes with his sleeve. “I—fucking—know,” says Sylvie, wheezing, pulling him to the side. Brian’s power is really quite formidable but not, actually, particularly useful—he can analyze the composition of substances, tell you their chemical makeup via touch. He makes a damn good cocktail. “Come on,” says Brian, “let’s go, let’s—fuck—” They stagger out of the crowd, coughing and crying, people shrieking around them. The riot police are wading in now, herding and shoving people fairly indiscriminately. Someone falls down and cries out, a high screech, as the convulsing mass of people around them heaves and moans. This happens every time. Usually the cane offers Sylvie some small measure of protection—it looks bad when the Sydney Morning Herald releases photos of cops beating on cripples. For a moment Sylvie thinks they’re going to get out of this okay, but then Brian falls into a cop’s riot shield and everything goes to shit. The cop yells at him, and Brian yells back, and then the handcuffs are out, and everything sort of goes the way you’d expect. Brian was right—it starts to rain. Hours later, Sylvie has been arguing with the officer at the desk of the police station for longer than they care to admit, but the desk cop won’t budge. It’s bullshit, it’s all bullshit. Brian’s being charged with resisting arrest. Arrest for what? Arrest for resisting. Also, apparently, teetotaler Brian, Brian who’s been sober for more than six months now, Brian who went through screaming withdrawal and came out grinning on the other side, is being drunk and disorderly, so he’s “cooling off” in a cell. A breathalyser test “isn’t necessary”. Sylvie’s nerves are jangling, and the statistics of Aboriginal deaths in custody are parading relentlessly through their head. It’s another two hours and a different officer at the desk before they let Brian be released into Sylvie’s custody. The new officer has flat, pale hair, and a dead-eyed look in her eyes. “___ ______, yes, she’s free to go. No bail.” Sylvie holds in their snarl. Brian’s left eye is bruised and his hair is tousled when they let him out. He’s silent all the way out of the station, until they reach the sidewalk, and then he swears loudly and kicks a tree. His voice cracks. He stands there for a moment, panting hard, whole body shuddering with it. “Let’s go,” he says, eventually. “I want to get the fuck out of here.” He stays at Sylvie’s place that night. Neither of them want to be alone. When they get in the door Sylvie swaps out their pronoun wristband, ties his hair up in a knot. He doesn’t usually feel comfortable wearing masculinity—it’s a skin he was forced to live in for so long that it still, sometimes, hums hotly through his blood, makes his nerves feel like they’re on fire. But it’s a part of him nonetheless. Brian disappears into the bathroom, and Sylvester hears the sound of water running. Moth starts to wind around his legs, purring, nudging his head against the hem of Sylvester’s skirt. Sylvester sinks to the floor, drops his cane with a clatter, and pulls Moth close. Buries his face in his fur. The cat meows indignantly, wriggling a little, and then settles. Sylvester puts the kettle on. After a while Brian emerges from the shower, hair damp, shoulders bowed low. It’s a long night for both of them. Brian sleeps in Sylvester’s bed, their legs tangled around each other, tossing and turning. Every hour or so Sylvester touches a hand lightly to Brian’s brow, and the bruise turns purple-blue, and then grey-green, and then faintly yellow. Irritation from tear gas doesn’t take too long for him to heal, but bruises are different, pressed deeper into flesh. Sometime in the black morning, Sylvester gets out of bed and goes to sit out on the balcony. He sheds his pronoun wristbands to sleep, and sometimes it feels like a shedding of skin. Syl hates wearing pyjamas, even in winter. The clothes feel strangling. It feels like Syl is being reborn every morning, naked, cold, confused. Gender takes so much energy to maintain. To navigate. Sometimes Syl wishes it all just didn’t exist. It seems so much easier for other people. It’s a cloudy night. A few stars wink through the scattered smears of sky. There’s no wind, but sometimes a shiver runs through Syl’s body. Skin open to the air. It feels like Syl can breathe in the universe. It’s hours before the sun begins to rise. Sylvia can hear the birds. She sighs, stretches. Turns back into the apartment. Feeds the cat. Makes tea with honey, bends the spoon. A few tea leaves escape into her cup, and she concentrates, twists her fingers, pulls them out without even touching the liquid. She steps up into the air, just to see if she can, and stays there, hovering a few centimetres above the ground. Only a few centimetres, and she can only maintain it for a second. But for a second she felt like she could fly. After a while Brian emerges with what looks like the contents of Sylvia’s entire bedroom wrapped around him. Bedspread, sheets, scarves, socks. There might be a pillow somewhere in there. “What are you doing up so fucking early.” “Made you tea.” “Thanks,” he says, grasping for the mug. He waves a hand awkwardly at his eye. “Thanks for this, too.” Sylvia just shrugs. “It’s not much.” The guilt is going to eat her up from the inside, gnaw out her bones. She couldn’t do anything. All that time Brian spent in lockup, hours more than he should have, and she couldn’t do anything. Some supers can phase through walls, break iron with their bare hands. Sylvia can heal bruises and stubbed toes. Bend her spoons. And make toast. Maybe Brian reads some of that in her eyes, because his next words are weirdly determined. “Don’t say that.” There’s a little wrinkle between his eyebrows. “It’s useful. It’s little, but it’s useful. Sometimes we need little things.” Sylvia bites down on her tongue, tastes blood in her mouth. “Okay,” she says. “Okay.” For the next few hours they stick by each other, never more than a few feet apart. They catch the bus into uni in silence. Sylvia doesn’t know what’s going to happen next. The police station hasn’t contacted them. They only have one class together, but neither wants to leave the other alone, so they go to Brian’s morning lecture and Sylvia streams hers online in their lunch break. Brian is quiet, listless. The day is already so dull, so draining, that it’s almost not surprising when the girl from the rally yesterday sidles up to them at the campus food court. Her eyebrows are still purple but she’s not smiling this time. “Hey,” she says. “Hey, Brian.” Brian’s head is pillowed in his arms. He cracks an eye to look at her. “Go away, Liv. I got fucking nicked last night. I don’t need this right now.” “That sucks, man,” she says. She seems genuine. “Look, I’ve just got this guy who wants to talk to you. Just one job. Nothing big. He’s so keen though, mate, and he’s got the money, he’s a real fucking big spender.” “Not interested,” says Brian. He closes his eyes again. “Come on, Bri, for old times’ sake? I know you went to druggie rehab or whatever, this isn’t about that, I’m not trying to sell you anything. This guy just wants to talk to you.” “He said no,” says Sylvia. Liv barely spares a glance at her, and tries to move closer to Brian, but Sylvia blocks her with her cane. The girl gets angry then. “Hey, what the fuck? Put that thing away, dude, I don’t even know you. Me and Brian go way back. Brian, listen—” Sylvia concentrates, feels her eyes heat up, glow red, and Liv pales a bit and backs away. Hands raised. “Fine, fuck, no need to get all batshit on me,” she says. “I’ll see you later, Bri.” She leaves, and Sylvia blinks, feels her eyes go back to normal. It was a bluff—the most she could have done is give the girl a spot of sunburn—but Liv didn’t know that. “I’m sorry about that,” says Brian into his arms. “I’m really—I’m sorry. And I’m sorry she called you dude. You didn’t need to do that. Thanks.” Sylvia doesn’t say anything, but she puts her arm around his shoulders, and some of the tension relaxes out of his spine. “She’s a super too, you know?” he says absently. “Low-level empath. I guess it explains why she’s such a dick all the time. Having to feel everyone. Lying to you. Feeling their hatred. Or just—feeling that they don’t even care. It must be hard.” “Are you going to be okay?” asks Sylvia softly. Brian snorts. “I’m always okay.” Sylvia doesn’t know the details, but Brian used to be mixed up in some bad shit. His power might make him a good bartender, but it also makes him a damn good dealer. He can touch something and know instantly if it’s pure, what it’s made up of, how strong it is, how good of a high it’ll give you. Brian grew up with nothing. Of course he used what he was given. And he helped people. There are kids out there cutting molly with bleach, mixing glass splinters into cocaine, taking risks because they can’t do anything else. Sylvia’s not going to judge—whatever makes people feel like life is worth living. But it got dark for Brian, got down to the core of him. He got out. And now this Liv person wants him to get back in. “I’ll take you home tonight,” says Sylvia. Brian laughs, and then looks at her face. “You’re not serious? I live two hours away. Your joints…” “I’m taking you home,” she says. She daydreams through their afternoon lectures, doodling in her notebook rather than taking any meaningful lecture notes. Brian is uncharacteristically quiet for the rest of the day, preferring to doze in his chair rather than make conversation. The lecturer scowls at them at one point, but Sylvia scowls right back. Brian lives out in the western suburbs, all the way out past Blacktown. On the train Sylvia ties her hair up, rubs her lipstick off her mouth. Puts her wristband in her bag. She’s met Brian’s sister before—he lives with her and her kids. She’s a nice woman. Tired, but always smiling. She’s subcapable, and cishet, but one of her daughters is a super, and she’s good at listening. “Ellie’s going to fucking kill me when she hears about the rally,” says Brian, drumming his fingers against his knee. “No, she’s not even going to be mad, she’s just going to be worried. That’s worse.” Sylvia doesn’t say anything. She loves you. At least she cares. She’s your family. Family can be bad for you. Ellie’s a nice woman. But Sylvia’s only met her twice. They get off at Brian’s stop, grab a kebab to share between them from the shop next to the train station. It’s dark already. Sylvia always forgets how early it gets dark in winter. It sneaks up on you. There’s a chill in the air, and Sylvia pulls her hoodie up over her ears. Sylvia isn’t sure exactly when things start to go wrong again. The main street is emptier than usual, but it’s late. One of the streetlights is flickering, casting a ghostly, erratic glow over the street. Brian clutches at her hand and she feels her bones creak. Brian clocks that they’re being followed before Sylvia does. He starts walking in a different direction to his home, back towards the shops, back towards somewhere well-lit. It doesn’t help. Couple minutes later there are three guys in front of them and one behind, all big guys, all muscle. And they’re all white. “Brian, right?” says the guy in front. “Heard you’re the bloke to speak to about getting some lab tests done.” He laughs after he says lab tests. His laugh is normal, nice-sounding. “Nope, that’s not me,” says Brian, pitching his voice a little higher. “Sorry. Hope you find him.” The guy squints a little when he hears Brian’s voice, but then he laughs again. “Sorry, mate. Got your number from Liv. And Jimmy here’s good at finding people.” He nods towards one of his friends, a guy with heterochromic eyes, one purple and one orange. Just fucking great. Brian drops the act. “I don’t know what Liv told you, but I don’t do that shit anymore. I can’t help you. Sorry.” He grabs Sylvia’s arm and moves to pull her away from them, but the guy called Jimmy gets in their way, gets all up in their space. “Better hear him out,” Jimmy says. Brian puffs up like an angry magpie. “I said I don’t fucking do that shit, okay? I don’t need to hear anyone out. I’m fucking leaving.” He shoves the guy, and Jimmy shoves him back, and Sylvia hits Jimmy with her cane. He yelps, and turns a surprisingly wounded look at her. “The fuck?” “We’re fucking leaving,” she parrots, heart in her throat. “You’re not fucking going anywhere,” says the guy in front. He still hasn’t introduced himself. There’s something shining in his hand—a knife? A gun. It’s a fucking gun. Where the fuck did he get a gun. Is it fake? It’s not fake. Shit. Brian snorts. “What are you going to do, shoot me? Good luck getting your lab tests done then.” The guy raises up the gun, trains it between Brian’s eyes, and then slowly, purposefully, lowers it to aim at Brian’s leg. “I can shoot you without killing you,” he says. His voice is terribly even, and his eyes are a very clear blue. “Heard you got arrested last night. Troublemaker, you are, hey? Wonder what the cops’ll think if you get admitted to emergency with a gunshot wound. That’s gang stuff, that is. Bet it wouldn’t look good. And then when you get out, well, Jimmy and me’ll still be here, and we’ll still have that job for you to do. I’ll pay you for it. We’re all gentlemen, right? But you don’t get to walk away.” Brian is breathing hard, fast, like a bird, and Sylvia sees what’s going to happen before he does it. Brian lunges, but Sylvia moves first, and the gun goes off with a ringing bang that makes her ears go numb, and there’s a hot feeling against her hip. Brian is yelping, and pulling her away, and the other guys seem just as shocked as they are. They’re across the street, now, Sylvia propped up in Brian’s arms, splayed over him, and one of the guys says “the cops, Nick, the fucking cops,” frozen, like they don’t know what to do. The blue-eyed guy—Nick—curses, and then they scatter. “Sylvia,” says Brian, gasping, “Sylvia, Sylvie, Syl—you—are you okay—” Sylvia feels like she’s floating. She feels like she could fly. “I’m fine,” she says, and her voice is very far away. She reaches into her hoodie pocket, and pulls out a little crumpled piece of metal. The bullet. Dented and warped just like the contents of her cutlery drawer. “Sylvie—you—what…” He’s patting frantically at her hip, her thigh, feeling for blood. There’s nothing. A high laugh bubbles up in her throat, and she slumps to the ground suddenly, all the adrenaline rushing out of her. She presses the broken little bullet into his hand, and he stares at it, uncomprehending, for a long moment. “You’re… you’re bulletproof,” he breathes, after a long moment. “Sylvia, you’re fucking Wonder Woman!” He laughs then too, a deep belly laugh, and then he whoops, and presses a kiss against her head. “Holy shit, I can’t believe we’re alive. Holy shit, those fucking wankers, they probably pissed themselves when they saw—holy fuck…” “He was right, though,” she says, with sudden clarity, “the cops, we should go—” There are no sirens yet, but that doesn’t mean anything. Maybe the cops got called, maybe they didn’t. Gunshots are loud, but it could have been—an illicit firework, or a car backfiring, or something. No one actually got injured. But Sylvia and Brian are Brown While Walking At Night, so there’s no sense in lingering. Sylvia picks up her cane from where it’s lying beside her, and heaves herself to her feet. Arms around Brian’s shoulders. Brian is weaving around like he’s drunk, still letting out a strangled giggle every now and then, like he can’t quite believe what just happened. Sylvia can’t help but laugh with him. The stars seem very large above them, even though out here with the city lights you can’t see many of them. The sky is cloudless. Everything seems huge, suddenly, like the whole world’s stretched out in front of them, like they can do anything. It’s a cold night. The bullet is warm in her pocket. It’s so small in her hand. Such a little thing. They’re both little, her and Brian, little things under a big sky. That’s okay, though, she thinks. Sometimes you need the little things. END "I stayed up all night waiting for the election results and then..." is copyright Joanne Rixon 2017. "The Little Dream" is copyright Robin M. Eames 2017. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. 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This Week’s Episode: This week, we bring you a recorded session of a live ADHD Q&A session.  The recording you will hear on this episode is from the March session.  Nisha Subramanian joins me to moderate this event. If you are listening to this episode the day it is published, Tuesday, April 11th, you can participate in the April ADHD Q&A session!  It starts at 12:30pm Central.  Go to to register.  On this episode, you will hear a variety of questions that we received for this Q&A session.  We talk about accountability, group conversation dynamics, and strategies with organization and motivation.  Toward the end of this episode, Nisha and I share one of our struggles with the ADHD reWired community, and we ask live viewers for advice.  You’ll Learn: [08:45] - Anne asks how to help her college freshman with his executive challenges when he is far away. I share my personal experience with college and discovering I have ADHD when I was in college. I share some ways that he can get some support while away at college. [12:15] - Sarah asks a question about making accountability work, as she requires a level of accountability that asks a lot of the other person. Nisha and I talk about accountability.  [17:17] - Rebecca has ADHD and is a therapist that is starting her private practice. She asks for tips on keeping up with paperwork. I talk about my experience in starting my own business. [20:55] - Eileen asks about knowing the appropriate time to speak in group conversations. I encourage her to ask for feedback from her friends. [24:52] - Tiffany asks how to stop over-sharing. Experts say that oversharing is fueled by our insecurities.  I ask, “Are you sharing something that you’ve dealt with?” and encourage you to ask yourself, “Why am I sharing this?” [29:07] - Sarah asks re-framing a task you have a lot of resistance towards. Nisha shares her experience with having a resistance towards writing.  [33:54] - Liz joins the call to ask about lists. She asks for tools or tips to update these lists.  Liz is currently using Evernote, and I explain how Evernote may not be the best tool for this.  I explain how I set up my boards. [40:54] - Anthony shares that if he doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t do anything. He asks for help in this area. I have a lot of strategies for this situation because I struggle with this. [46:37] - Nisha and I talk about one of our struggles, which is managing the ADHD reWired Facebook group. We ask live viewers for advice on handling this situation. [53:52] - Teresa asks when I was first diagnosed with ADHD.   Your Resources:   Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles:   ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group! Our Spring 2017 sessions are April 24th through June 30th. Registration is now through April 4th.  Go to and schedule a call if you want to join.   Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm.  Go to . ADHD Women’s Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women’s Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here:  Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you?  Do you have a story?  Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician?  If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .   

This Week’s Episode: This week, I’m joined by Ana Gillon.  Ana is a mother, wife, and project coordinator.  She has been on a meandering journey of self-understanding since she was diagnosed with ADHD five years ago. A self-proclaimed “wandering creative,” Ana was part of a recent ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability group.   In this conversation, you will hear Ana tell her ADHD story.  She talks about ADHD and the idea of giving your ADHD a job.  Ana explains how the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability group is helping her. She describes how the use of bread crumbs and other techniques from the group helps with organization.  Ana also shares her planning strategies, which includes necessary adjustments.  Investing time into planning helps build an attainable roadmap.                                           Connect with Ana Gillon: Email: ana.gillon@gmail.com You’ll Learn: [07:47] - Ana talks about how her diagnosis came about and found this podcast.  She talks about the discovery that she is a “hot mess”. [12:00] - Ana shares a personal story about the co-parenting of her son and explains how this situation helped her understand that her ADHD was impacting her life. [16:00] - Ana describes how she saw herself as an employee in the workplace when she was issued performance plans. [18:44] - Ana explains what a project coordinator is and how this is a position you would not expect to be filled by a person with ADHD. [23:37] - Ana talks about working in a corporate environment with ADHD. She would not recommend the strategy she has historically taken, avoidance.   [27:37] - It has been two years since Ana started in her current role.  She explains how her mindset has recently changed. [30:59] - Ana talks about how she uses the bread crumbs strategy that she learned in the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group. [33:08] - Ana explains how she uses a Google calendar and a paper calendar together. [39:32] - Ana explains that the more she makes bread crumbs and other strategies as part of her routine, the less energy she is putting into single decisions. [42:05] - We talk about using Craigslist as a storage locker. [43:34] - Ana shares her strategies for going through her stuff. [46:50] - Ana talks about how she plans, and she describes how planning gives her comfort. [56:32] - Ana explains how her strategies mesh with her husband’s organization. I share a suggestion with Ana to help with these situations. [1:00:27] - Ana shares some advice for the spouse of someone that will be participating in the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group. [1:05:42] - Ana describes where she would like to be in five years and what she is doing now to work towards that goal. [1:08:53] - Ana talks about the biggest change that she’s seen in herself since becoming part of the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability group. Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles:   ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group! Our Spring 2017 sessions are April 24th through June 30th. Registration is now through April 4th.  Go to and schedule a call if you want to join.   Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm.  Go to . ADHD Women’s Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women’s Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here: Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you?  Do you have a story?  Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician?  If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .

This Week’s Episode: This week, I’m joined by award-winning podcaster, Kevin Allison.  Kevin is the host of the story-telling podcast,  This is a podcast where people tell true stories they never thought they would share in front of an audience.  Kevin is also part of the sketch comedy troupe, The State. Considering he is the host of a wildly successful podcast on storytelling, you are going to hear Kevin tell some parts of his story.  Kevin has always seen himself as a creative type that is “kind of a mess,” and he realized he needed help with the podcast’s business.  One of his listeners helped him build the podcast into a thriving business.   In this conversation, you will hear us discuss various aspects of telling your ADHD story.  Kevin explains that forming and telling a story can help you learn more about yourself as you dig into the complexities of those situations.  He shares some tips on putting together your story and determining if you are ready to tell your ADHD story.   Connect with Kevin Allison Twitter - You’ll Learn: [06:17] - Kevin talks about his habit of working in bed and knowing that it may not be the best environment to be creative and get work done. [07:40] - Kevin talks about “coming out” with his executive functioning challenges. He shares how he tapped into his listeners to get help with the business. [10:57] - Kevin tours with his podcast frequently.  He shares how his business associate helps him by putting together the itineraries for these trips. [12:29] - Kevin talks about how he has been thinking about returning to an anti-depressant.   [14:03] - We talk about the effect that the 2016 election is having on some people. [16:30] - Kevin shares some ways that he takes care of himself.  He talks about how he loses the desire to do those things when depression creeps in. [18:27] - Our community is very familiar with shame.  Kevin explains the role that shame plays with Risk and in his life. [24:54] - Kevin says that it’s when you dig into the complexity of situations for the purpose of storytelling, it is a process that helps you learn about yourself.  He also explains that this type of art is sometimes at it’s best when it is rooted in reality. [31:52] - Kevin shares an instance of sharing a personal story and how it helped him create a connection with the audience that he had never experienced. [33:02] - Kevin talks about how Risk is shocking but is not going for shock-value. [34:06] - Risk is currently involved in a controversy.  He shares some information on this situation and incidents in the past. [45:17] - I feel there is power in people sharing their ADHD stories.  Kevin shares some thoughts on whether or not you’re ready to tell your story. [52:27] - I talk with Kevin about an idea I have about creating storytelling opportunities for people with ADHD. Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles:   ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group! Our Spring 2017 sessions are April 24th through June 30th. Registration is now through April 4th.  Go to and schedule a call if you want to join.   Planning Workshops Do you feel like consistency is a weakness of yours?  I would like to show you the effective planning strategies I have used to be incredibly consistent with this podcast.  Join me for two free planning workshops.  The first session will be on Monday, March 27th. We will be covering yearly and quarterly planning in that first session. The second session covers planning your day, week, and month. This session is on Wednesday, March 29th. Registration is free, but space is limited. Register at . Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm.  Go to . ADHD Women’s Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women’s Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here:   Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you?  Do you have a story?  Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician?  If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .

This Week’s Episode: Nicole joins me on this episode of ADHD reWired. Nicole is a mom of two with a background in sales.  Nicole has been a member of our most recent ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group.   In this discussion, Nicole shares her ADHD story with us.  She has an entertaining story of how she first realized she has ADHD.  Nicole shares a lot with us in the conversation. You will hear how she views the role that ADHD plays in her life, she reads a letter she wrote to her ADHD, and she describes the changes she is experiencing in her life now because of her involvement in the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group.   Connect with Nicole Email: plymouthmn7@gmail.com You’ll Learn: [06:09] - Nicole describes her background and her history with ADHD.  She was not diagnosed until she was a senior in college. She shares how this discovery and diagnosis came about.   [09:12] - Nicole talks about some of the resources she found (this podcast included) and how she started to understand the science of ADHD.   [16:30] - Nicole shares how she views the role ADHD plays in her life. I describe a post-it note that Nicole has designed that symbolizes everything. [21:38] - We recently did a writing exercise in the group.  I asked members to write a letter that starts “Dear ADHD,” and she shares her letter with us. [24:24] - Nicole explains why she joined the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group. [31:17] - Nicole shares some of her transformation that was brought on by being part of the group.   [33:27] - Nicole believed that hyperfocus was one of her greatest strengths.  We discuss the side effects that can make hyperfocus a weakness. [43:36] - Nicole talks about how she benefitted from mindfulness meditation.   [46:20] - Nicole texted me that she needed to reschedule our appointment, but then changed her mind.  We talk about pushing through perfectionism and feelings of not being in the right mental place for events to take place.   [50:50] - Holding onto strengths and successes is important because there will be times of weakness that you use those to push through. [51:58] - Nicole lists some of the successes she’s experienced because of the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group. This has helped her grow in ways she would have never expected. [56:52] - Nicole talks about using paper and Evernote to organize. [1:01:53] - If you are newly diagnosed with ADHD and are planning on having children or have children that are young, Nicole has a message for you. Your Resources: - Ari Tuckman Podcast Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles: ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group! Our Spring 2017 sessions are April 24th through June 30th. Registration is March 27th through April 4th.  If you reserve your spot now on a Tuesday or Thursday before March 24th, mention the promo code “reWired 100” to get $100 off registration. Go to  and schedule a call if you want to join.   Planning Workshops Do you feel like consistency is a weakness of yours?  I would like to show you the effective planning strategies I have used to be incredibly consistent with this podcast.  Join me for two free planning workshops.  The first session will be on Monday, March 27th. We will be covering yearly and quarterly planning in that first session. The second session covers planning your day, week, and month.  This session is on Wednesday, March 29th. Registration is free, but space is limited. Register at . Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm.  Go to . ADHD Women’s Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women’s Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here:   Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you?  Do you have a story?  Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician?  If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .

This Week’s Episode: This week, we bring you a recorded session of our ADHD Q&A session.  The recording you will hear on this episode is from the February session.  Nisha Subramanian joins me to moderate this event.  We field several questions on ADHD, task management, and organization.  We talk about avoiding social media distractions, setting goals, controlling emotions and anger management, accountability, and much more.   If you’re listening to this episode the day it is released (Tuesday, March 14th), you can join the March session today!  It starts at 12:30pm Central, and you can register at . You’ll Learn: [11:57] - When considering teens with ADHD and anxiety, task initiation is especially hard and involves a lot of parent involvement.  I discuss some ways for adolescents to increase independence in this area.   [14:45] - Lucinda asks about items that are scheduled, but don’t have a home for until that scheduled time.  I share some ideas on how to organize and store these tasks.   [19:52] - Scott asks how a question about selecting a doctor. I give some tips and things to consider when selecting a physician to administer medications. [23:05] - Chris asks what techniques could be used to control emotions and anger management.  I explain why this is an important topic for people with ADHD and some tips to manage these emotions through self-care. [28:03] - Adam wonders, “How do you set goals when you don’t know what you want?”  I share some self-exploration practices to evaluate your situation to determine what energizes you.   [33:48] - Aziz finds that chess is one of the few things in which he’s able to hyperfocus. However, he plays chess daily and would like to know how to disengage. I explain the role of dopamine in these situations and share that accountability is a way to stop at an appropriate time. [40:28] - Tom shares how he uses Alexa to help him with task management and organization.   [48:03] - We spend a lot of time on Facebook and this inevitably leads to a lack of productivity.  I share a few resources to limit and control online and social media use to maintain productivity. [52:51] - Scott asks about a medication suggestion, but I explain why I am not able to give a recommendation.   [54:50] - Lucinda asks a follow-up question to her previous question.  Nisha and I have some advice to have a visual reminder of items that need to be taken care of. [59:33] - Nisha brings up a topic from a coaching group.  She asks the question, “What is self-care?”  I describe self-care as self compassion and self kindness and describe some ways to practice self-care. Your Resources: Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles: ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group! Our Spring 2017 sessions are April 24th through June 30th. Registration is March 27th through April 4th.  If you reserve your spot now on a Tuesday or Thursday before March 24th, mention the promo code “reWired 100” to get $100 off registration. Go to and schedule a call if you want to join.   Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm.  Go to . ADHD Women’s Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women’s Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here: Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you?  Do you have a story?  Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician?  If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .

This Week’s Episode: Best-selling author, blogger, speaker, and friend Stephanie Sarkis returns to the podcast on this episode.  Recently, one of Stephanie’s blog posts went viral, and she was interviewed on CNN.  This article was on “gaslighting.”  She joins me on this episode to discuss this topic and the issues surrounding it. In this conversation, we use Stephanie’s blog piece on gaslighting to jump into a discussion on the current political environment.  We talk about how the current climate is affecting us all as individuals.  Stephanie shares how to practice good self-care, and we talk about how to engage in constructive discourse with those that we don’t agree with. In this episode, you will hear some of my personal political opinions.  ADHD reWired is more than a podcast, we are a community. As a community, I want to bring people together so we can learn more from each other.  These conversations about politics may be difficult; it’s my hope that these conversations can help us all become better listeners, communicators, and citizens. Connect with Stephanie Sarkis Website - You’ll Learn: [08:39] - Stephanie talks about gaslighting, which is a series of behaviors that is used to manipulate. She explains what types of people use these behaviors. [10:49] - Stephanie did not write this article based on current political events, but people are becoming more aware of manipulative behavior in politics. [13:12] - Recent political events have caused people to obsess and struggle to function.  Stephanie talks about self-care in these tumultuous situations.   [13:53] - Stephanie talks about how to practice good self-care, specifically with electronics. “Electronics are cocaine for the ADHD brain.” [19:15] - While talking about self-care, we talk about the role of exercise. [23:04] - Stephanie talks about the importance of being around people that lift you up, rather than bring you down.   [23:42] - We talk about relationships with people who we disagree with politically.  People struggle with knowing how to speak out appropriately.  Stephanie shares some thoughts on this scenario and when it’s right to disengage. [28:22] - I recently posted some political thoughts on my personal Facebook page.  This led to some back-and-forth with friends that disagreed with me.  I share some of my behaviors in this discussion and Stephanie explains why communication can break down.   [32:48] - Stephanie shares what we can do to get involved to be constructive with these emotions we feel. [36:14] - We talk about some of the work that groups like CHADD have been doing.   [41:25] - I share what I have done to take action with my elected officials.  Stephanie shares what we do and don’t have control over in these situations. [46:22] - Calling legislators can be intimidating for those of us that have phone anxiety.  Stephanie talks about ways to get involved and contact legislators without calling them on the phone. [49:19] - There’s a lot of illegitimate news sources out there right now.  It’s important to verify that the information you are receiving and using is accurate. [52:28] - While it feels like civic discourse has disappeared, Stephanie says that we are moving in the right direction.  Our common goals will be what ties us together. [55:59] - We explain the loaded background of the term “snowflake” and the history of Japanese internment camps. [1:00:10] - Journaling can help you work through things if you are upset. Your Resources:   Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles:   ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group! Our Spring 2017 sessions are April 24th through June 30th. Registration is March 27th through April 4th.  If you reserve your spot now on a Tuesday or Thursday before March 24th, mention the promo code “reWired 100” to get $100 off registration. Go to and schedule a call if you want to join.     Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live!  These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm.  Go to .   ADHD Women’s Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women’s Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here:     ADHD-Friendly Guide to Understanding Insurance Go from “WTF!” to “Done!” with our three-part series.  Jessica Stillwell will be presenting the information and answering all of your questions. Go to to register!   Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you?  Do you have a story?  Are you a Coach?  Are you an ADHD Clinician?  If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .

Our Spring 2015 issue of American Road Magazine was dedicated to the Trail of the Ancients, finding some of the American Road’s oldest attractions. The Upper and Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River are one of Nature’s works of art in Southwest Wisconsin that have been a tourist attraction since just after the Civil War. It is also the site in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of its famous Duck Tours. These amphibious vehicles called DUKW’s, or popularly known as Ducks, are six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2-ton capacity CCKW trucks used by the U.S. military in World War II and introduced to the Dells in 1946. This podcast is the first of two conversations with Dan Gavinski, the General Manager of the original Wisconsin Ducks and Dells Boat Tours. In part one Dan tells the both the history of the Ducks at the Dells and his own rise from parking lot attendant to running the whole show. In our second podcast Dan will talk more about the Ducks themselves and the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration.

Our Spring 2015 issue of American Road Magazine was dedicated to the Trail of the Ancients, finding some of the American Road’s oldest attractions. The Upper and Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River are one of Nature’s works of art in Southwest Wisconsin that have been a tourist attraction since just after the Civil War. It is also the site in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of its famous Duck Tours. No we aren’t talking about a feathery parade. These DUCKS are six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2-ton trucks used during World War II. This podcast is the second of two conversations with Dan Gavinski, the General Manager of the original Wisconsin Ducks and Dells Boat Tours, who has risen from parking lot attendant to running the whole show. In this interview Dan talks describes the remarkable Ducks and other aspects of the high powered aquatic entertainment at the Dells and finally about the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration.

Our Spring 2015 issue of American Road Magazine was dedicated to the Trail of the Ancients, finding some of the American Road’s oldest attractions. The Upper and Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River are one of Nature’s works of art in Southwest Wisconsin that have been a tourist attraction since just after the Civil War. It is also the site in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of its famous Duck Tours. These amphibious vehicles called DUKW’s, or popularly known as Ducks, are six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2-ton capacity CCKW trucks used by the U.S. military in World War II and introduced to the Dells in 1946. This podcast is the first of two conversations with Dan Gavinski, the General Manager of the original Wisconsin Ducks and Dells Boat Tours. In part one Dan tells the both the history of the Ducks at the Dells and his own rise from parking lot attendant to running the whole show. In our second podcast Dan will talk more about the Ducks themselves and the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration.

Our Spring 2015 issue of American Road Magazine was dedicated to the Trail of the Ancients, finding some of the American Road's oldest attractions. The Upper and Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River are one of Nature's works of art in Southwest Wisconsin that have been a tourist attraction since just after the Civil War. It is also the site in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of its famous Duck Tours. These amphibious vehicles called DUKW's, or popularly known as Ducks, are six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2-ton capacity CCKW trucks used by the U.S. military in World War II and introduced to the Dells in 1946. This podcast is the first of two conversations with Dan Gavinski, the General Manager of the original Wisconsin Ducks and Dells Boat Tours. In part one Dan tells the both the history of the Ducks at the Dells and his own rise from parking lot attendant to running the whole show. In our second podcast Dan will talk more about the Ducks themselves and the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration.

Our Spring 2015 issue of American Road Magazine was dedicated to the Trail of the Ancients, finding some of the American Road's oldest attractions. The Upper and Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River are one of Nature's works of art in Southwest Wisconsin that have been a tourist attraction since just after the Civil War. It is also the site in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of its famous Duck Tours. No we aren't talking about a feathery parade. These DUCKS are six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2-ton trucks used during World War II. This podcast is the second of two conversations with Dan Gavinski, the General Manager of the original Wisconsin Ducks and Dells Boat Tours, who has risen from parking lot attendant to running the whole show. In this interview Dan talks describes the remarkable Ducks and other aspects of the high powered aquatic entertainment at the Dells and finally about the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration.

Our Spring 2015 issue of American Road Magazine was dedicated to the Trail of the Ancients, finding some of the American Road’s oldest attractions. The Upper and Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River are one of Nature’s works of art in Southwest Wisconsin that have been a tourist attraction since just after the Civil War. It is also the site in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of its famous Duck Tours. No we aren’t talking about a feathery parade. These DUCKS are six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the 2-ton trucks used during World War II. This podcast is the second of two conversations with Dan Gavinski, the General Manager of the original Wisconsin Ducks and Dells Boat Tours, who has risen from parking lot attendant to running the whole show. In this interview Dan talks describes the remarkable Ducks and other aspects of the high powered aquatic entertainment at the Dells and finally about the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration.

That soft, sweet, summertime sensation better known as DQ or Dairy Queen has been a favorite diversion on the American Road for three quarters of a century. In the fall of 2013 I traveled to downtown Joliet, Illinois to visit the site of the very first DQ in America. Our Spring 2015 issue is dedicate to the oldest things along the American road and this certain fits the bill. My tour guide was former Joliet City Manager Thomas Thanas and, while our tour had to be virtual because the building no longer housed the original Dairy Queen, it was conducted alongside the very real Route 66 in downtown Joliet. Join us as we find more about the birth of this icy American Road icon.

That soft, sweet, summertime sensation better known as DQ or Dairy Queen has been a favorite diversion on the American Road for three quarters of a century. In the fall of 2013 I traveled to downtown Joliet, Illinois to visit the site of the very first DQ in America. Our Spring 2015 issue is dedicate to the oldest things along the American road and this certain fits the bill. My tour guide was former Joliet City Manager Thomas Thanas and, while our tour had to be virtual because the building no longer housed the original Dairy Queen, it was conducted alongside the very real Route 66 in downtown Joliet. Join us as we find more about the birth of this icy American Road icon.

That soft, sweet, summertime sensation better known as DQ or Dairy Queen has been a favorite diversion on the American Road for three quarters of a century. In the fall of 2013 I traveled to downtown Joliet, Illinois to visit the site of the very first DQ in America. Our Spring 2015 issue is dedicate to the oldest things along the American road and this certain fits the bill. My tour guide was former Joliet City Manager Thomas Thanas and, while our tour had to be virtual because the building no longer housed the original Dairy Queen, it was conducted alongside the very real Route 66 in downtown Joliet. Join us as we find more about the birth of this icy American Road icon.

This is part 2 of our Odessa, Texas interview. Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabbits and even more about the surprising cultural oasis that this west Texas town has become.

Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabbits and even more about the surprising cultural oasis that this west Texas town has become.

This is part 2 of our Odessa, Texas interview. Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabbits and even more about the surprising cultural oasis that this west Texas town has become.

Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabbits and even more about the surprising cultural oasis that this west Texas town has become.

This is part 2 of our Odessa, Texas interview. Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabbits and even more about the surprising cultural oasis that this west Texas town has become.

Our Spring 2014 issue of American Road Magazine featured an article entitled Hopping the Hippety Highway by Jillian Gurney. The author followed rabbit trails all over the country tracking down big bunnies. One of the stops was Odessa, Texas, home of the largest jackrabbit in the world. In this two-part interview with Linda Sweat of the Odessa Convention and Visitors Bureau we will find out about the history of the rascally native jackrabbits and even more about the surprising cultural oasis that this west Texas town has become.