Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from October 19th
I have just had my first cold of the season, I am hoping not to have any more, but I did not build my system up in time for this one. ECHINACEA and VIT C are great in building up your immune system and protecting you from cold and flu season, I just had not started my regime yet.
If you get a cold or the flu, please stay at home. First of all, it is better for you to rest, drink warm fluids, and get over the worst of it. Secondly, you do not need to pass it on, especially to vulnerable people who are subject to covid. Thirdly, it can prevent other colds or viruses getting you if you take care of this one now and rebuild your immune system.
Get well, your body does not want you to push through it, rest heal, and do not pass it on. In these times, we do not want to get sick or cause a panic amongst people who fear covid or just getting sick as it weakens your immune system, we can prevent it, and if we do fall ill, heal the old fashioned way and with so many holistic means, as seem below.
The body knows what it needs, so listen, and society knows what it needs so please respect and do not pass any of it on or just suck it up, no one wants your cold. Fear weakens the system and plays havoc with the mind, so if you do get the chills, know you can do something about it and that it requires you to nurture and love they self well again.
Their Stories Matter/Authors Kiss, with Sara Troy and her guest Charlie Sheldon, on air from October 19th
“I believe it was the telling of stories that made us modern humans, because a story can carry lessons and history one generation to the next. I believe something happened around 70-100,000 years ago when two different types of ancient hominids bred and their offspring’s brains were wired differently, enabling those offspring to imagine and tell stories, recounting of the past, imaginings of the future, rules to live by. This, I believe, is what happened and from which flowed art, burial of the dead, religion, and culture – the first origins of ancient truth, legends, and myth, carried among us still. It was the telling of stories that made us human, and is still. My Strong Heart Series, in some small way, imagines how this might have happened, and how people today could have made such a discovery.”
Every great scientific discovery began as a heretical, outrageous idea dismissed and condemned by all. Those ideas that today are considered foolish, even dangerous, may turn out to be true, given evidence, often much evidence, to counter the huge power of the status quo. I write fiction about these issues, often with a touch of magic realism, even a breath of fantasy, for only in those realms can the reader accept and truly imagine what today might be considered impossible.
I have always been a writer, always a hiker, trained as a wildlife biologist, living in the Pacific Northwest, a husband, father, grandfather, and friend. In my work life I was a graduate student teacher, a commercial fisherman, a house painter, a fisheries consultant, a treasure hunter, then a planner, a construction manager, a project manager, even an executive for various seaports – for 28 years. During my years working for seaports I was involved with several difficult environmental cleanups, including Superfund sites, and for many years I worked with local tribes negotiating fishing agreements between their salmon fishermen and harbor operations in Seattle. After I retired from port work at age 65 in 2012 I went back to sea as a merchant sailor, container ships and military reserve vessels, as a watch stander and able bodied seaman, for four years, then quit for good to write these books about Olympic National Park, the Gulf of Alaska, a certain ornery young girl, and ancient history – I call it the Strong Heart Series.
For several years I performed maritime poetry at the Fisher Poets festival in Oregon and similar events near Seattle.
During my work life I spent more time than I care to admit before groups of people speaking, presenting, often before hostile crowds; I was a certified teacher for a private company teaching decision making and problem analysis for over a decade; and after retirement have conducted book readings and discussions at bookstores and retirement communities throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Before writing my latest series of books I did years of research into human origins, archeology, geology, ice ages, and climate change to develop the foundation for my Strong Heart series of books, which ask the question: could the ancient legends of most First peoples of North America that they have always been here – always – be true? Along the way I have learned much about what we know, and how much more we do not know, plus a healthy dose of aversion to zealotry and people who are absolutely convinced they know what is best for the rest of us.
I’d love to discuss how one’s personal experiences become the foundation for what they write about, and the relationship between one’s training and values and what emerges from the point of the pen. In my Strong Heart series, in addition to exploring ancient legends and the origins of “modern humans” about 70000 years ago, I also explore the struggle between development and preservation, the dangers of zealotry, coming of age, and what makes a family and a home. Along the way there is much I can share about hiking, backpacking, the Pacific Northwest and Olympic National Park, seafaring, and survival. I am also a water dowser – true – with some stories about that, too.
Went to Yale, UMass for an MS in wildlife biology, then went to sea as a commercial fisherman. Spent 30 years working for ports, then back to sea at 65 as a merchant sailor. Came ashore for good in my 70th year in 2016 to flog my tales and write. I live in Tacoma Washington, hike the Olympics whenever I can, cook for my wife, and row on Puget Sound in my Adirondack guide boat.
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Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Brad Schaffer, on air from October 12th
Brad Schaeffer, author of The Extraordinary, which tackles two sensitive subject matters — Autism and PTSD. In an interview, Brad can talk about the impacts on not just those who have these conditions, but also the families who support them. In The Extraordinary, a teenage boy on the Autism spectrum narrates his struggles coping with a chaotic and scary world when his Marine Corp father returns from Iraq debilitated by injury and PTSD. In this interview, Brad talks about how the suicide of his father, who suffered from PTSD after returning from war has influenced his writing and this story.
Brad Schaeffer’s The Extraordinaryaddresses Autism and PTSD
The impacts on those who have these conditions, as well as the families that support them
In this interview, Brad will talk about:
How the suicide of his father, who suffered from PTSD after returning from war has influenced his writing and this story.
Why he chose to write the story through the eyes of an autistic child.
Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist for TheWashington Postcalls the book “a compelling tale of vulnerability, endurance, and forgiveness.” How are these themes conveyed in the story?
A family already living on the edge of disaster plunges into despair when the father, a Marine Corps Captain, returns home from Iraq debilitated by wounds. More devastating damage follows, much of it self-inflicted. Brad Schaeffer’s novel recounts the sense of loss, terror and pain through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Wesley, the family’s youngest member, who suffers from Autism. Schaeffer doesn’t avert his gaze from the hurt that members of this wounded family cause each other, yet never loses his compassion for his characters. The result is an intimate and compelling tale of vulnerability, endurance, and forgiveness. – Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist for the Washington Post, Washington Post Magazine, Editor, Journalism Professor, and author of four books
Wesley Scott is a teenage boy with autism. He lives within his own intimate realm of sensory overload, dysfunction, sometimes violence, and fear of the outside world. He describes himself as the only actor on a stage without a script. We learn through Wes’ own words that he is a deep, thoughtful young man…but no one knows it.
Wes is unable to connect with anyone other than his father, a captain in the Marine Corps. He in turn adores his extraordinary son, his “Ex-man,” as he fondly calls him. When Captain Scott ships off to fight in the Middle East, Wes is confused and senses foreboding in what it all means, although he cannot express it to his family, friends, or teachers.
With his father overseas, Wes finds himself further isolated in a world of “Ords” (his dad’s term for the ordinaries, unlike his “Ex” son) and a stranger in his own family. His mother is distant and cold, his high school brother resents the inordinate attention his autistic brother constantly steals from him, and his twenty-something sister has chosen to move away from it all to Manhattan. The burden on the family gets exponentially worse when Captain Scott returns home wounded. The family tries to cope as best they can, but when his father succumbs to PTSD, Wes must somehow make sense of all that has happened—which is difficult for a teenager under normal conditions, let alone one on the autism spectrum who’s suddenly lost the only family member who ever really bothered to know him.
The Scotts seem on the verge of unraveling and Wes finds himself in a bewildering land of family turmoil. How will Wes come to understand this tragedy? And how will the family ever come to fill the void left by a father who understood what the rest have yet to discover…that Wes is an extraordinary young man indeed. And that all of us, no matter how much the world seems to scorn our existence—or has simply forgotten our pain—have something extraordinary to offer and make that world a better place.
Brad Schaffer was born in Baltimore, MD but grew up in a suburb of Chicago. After attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he lived in Chicago where he embarked on his dual career as both a commodities trader and author/novelist. He currently resides in New Jersey. His prolific and eclectic writing can be found in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, National Review, Daily Wire, and other well-read publications. His interests, as reflected in his articles, encompass a wide swath from business, to science, education, the arts, history, politics, social issues, and general day-to-day living. He is also an accomplished guitarist and pianist and can be found playing in local New Jersey clubs with one of several rock bands in which he has played over the years. He is the author of Of Another Time And Place (2018), which takes place in World War II Europe. It is a study of the conflicts that good men confront when compelled by national loyalty and indoctrination to fight for morally reprehensible causes. His latest novel, The Extraordinary (2021), deftly tackles two sensitive subject matters — autism and PTSD — and the impacts they have on not just those who have these conditions, but also the families who support them.
As I reflect on my last 66 years of my life on my birthday, (OCT 6th I turn 67) I see that I have had a roller costa life, there have been many ups, and downs, many adventures. I have seen wondrous things around the world, I have lived many lives , and in this one lifetime too, and I have discovered who I really am and what I am here to do.. I did not always live for me but bent myself into a pretzel trying to please everyone else. NO MORE, for you cannot please all people , there will always be those who are dissatisfied with you, so do it for you.
Now on my 67th-year I look back on the last few years of my life and work, and I stand proud of what I have achieved and with whom I am today. I am not financially rich, (still working on that) but I have become truly abundant in purpose and enriched by what I do, and in the strength and courage, I see within me now. I stepped into my now and allowed my purpose to unfold, and now in that enrichment, I feel soul, heart, and spirit full, I thank my family, friends, and those who have been there for me all in so many ways, for without you I would not have become who I am today.
I wish to thanks all those who have loved and supported me and sent me so many birthday wishes.
A CONTENT ENRICHED MEANINGFUL PERSON. May you all find your path, may it be clear for you, and may the wind be in your sails leading you to your possibilities.
Mom | Mil Spouse | Believer | Leader A WARRIOR & healer uplifting and empowering ALL WOMEN!!
Nicole Gebhardt is, in fact, a lighthouse; A bright beacon of light-a voice for all women especially military spouses who are broken, grieving alone in the dark. She is a strong leader, guide and healer. Nicole’s passionate message is, “you are never alone, you are enough just as you are…be unapologetically you! You can get through the grief and pain to move forward into the peace within.”
Nicole is the proud mother of six children, a military wife who has had to manage her young family on her own, when her husband was deployed several different times in seven years. She is a pillar of strength in her community of military families, as well as for her own family, friends, acquaintances and beyond.
Nicole truly has the heart of a warrior, to champion those hurting in pain, grieving in need of hope, inspiration and reassurance on life’s sometimes difficult path. She, herself, has sustained molestation, abuse, rape and loss of a child. She leads to show, you are no longer a victim but a true survivor.
Come hear her shows with Sara Troy on life, death, alcoholism being a military wife and thriving life.
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