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Feeling better, thanks
I saw an Eastern medicine doctor last Monday to check out my prolonged illness and general lethargy. It's been pretty disheartening, as you can imagine, to wake up every morning as if I'm wearing rocks instead of springs. I never want to go jogging or hiking anymore and I have to force myself to do so just so I don't lose the ability to do it (you know, from muscle disintegration). But it's been far from the joy that I used to feel when I went hiking. So, aside from my crazy barking cough that keeps me up some nights, I wanted to address the lethargy.
Jairan had me fill out a questionnaire and give a lot of information about myself, and then took my pulse a bunch of different ways, ultimately determining that I have a weak spleen. And then she let me check out an acupuncture needle, since I have an intense phobia of needles (which I'm now actively working to get over), and then I said I'd be ok checking it out just for one second. So she put it in, it didn't really hurt, and then I freaked out and couldn't deal. So she switched to acupressure, which is the same, but without needles. And then she gave me about a million tiny packets of herbs to take daily, warning me that they taste awful and that I should just take them in a shot glass very fast.
So all last week, I did these herbs and took the Wellness Formula pills she recommended, and, dog gone it, I feel better. Not totally awesome, but better.
So today, I'm going for a hike with Diva for a couple hours. Wish me luck!


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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The second volume of Maus covers a lot of ground. It talks about Vladek's time at Auschwitz. It talks about the author's fears for the future of his relationship with his father — and his guilt over not wanting to have to take care of an ailing man who has suffered so much, but is unrelenting in his demands of his grown son.
Spiegelman paints a vivid picture of the horrors of a death camp, although these horrors are mitigated a bit by the cartoonishness of the animal characters. I don't know if I'd be able to stomach them otherwise. His father suffered through horrors that I can't even begin to imagine, no matter how many times I watch "Band of Brothers" and "Schindler's List."
But, as with his first volume, he doesn't pull any punches with his father, either. It can be easy to almost deify Holocaust survivors, to think of them all as saints. It kind of reminds me of how, in the days right after 9/11, everyone kept calling the people who had died "heroes." For the most part, they weren't any different from anyone else on the street; they didn't volunteer to die in this tragedy. They were mostly normal people with normal lives, and, had they survived, they would still occasionally have fought with their spouses and snapped at their children and ignored bums asking for change like most of the rest of us.
Vladek survived a terrible ordeal, and what happened to him should never happen to anyone. But he wasn't a perfect person going into it, and he wasn't perfect coming out of it, either.
Spiegelman describes one instance in which he and his wife pick up a hitchhiker on the side of the road. The hitchhiker is African-American, and Vladek is stupefied by what he sees as their foolishness. After all, this "shvartzer" (a Yiddish slur) could steal their money or their groceries! Art and his wife are horrified by Vladek's racism, but when they try to point out that it's tantamount to the German's views on the Jews, Vladek just can't see it.
It reminds me of an episode from my youth. Tom Bradley had just been re-elected as the mayor of Los Angeles. He was the first (and, to date, the only) African-American mayor of LA, and our teachers in school used the opportunity to teach us that anyone could be anything they wanted to be, no matter what their race. When I excitedly told my dad about it later that night, he said that he didn't like Tom Bradley. When I asked why, he simply replied, "Because he's black."
Having been taught at school that racism was bad, I was shocked to discover that my father, when it came to civil rights, was one of the bad guys. It wasn't until much later that I realized that the reason because my dad was racist was because he owned a market in the ghetto of Long Beach, and that most of the people who stole from the store were African-American and Latino. That was his only experience with other minorities; he disliked black people the way I dislke hipsters. He'd just never met a nice one.
It wasn't right, but I couldn't say that, had my parents not bought a house in the nicer parts of Long Beach so that I could go to the district's better schools, which taught that all people are created equal, regardless of the color of their skin, I wouldn't be a racist myself. I didn't agree, but I understood why.
And Here My Troubles Began is a worthy successor to My Father Bleeds History. It continues to explore all of the themes and tell all of the stories that Spiegelman set up in the first volume. My only nitpick was that the ending was a bit abrupt.
But, I guess, when a story's over, it's over.


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The Holy Father Benedict XVI received today in audience, at the eve of the feast of St. Egidio, prof. Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, the president Marco Impagliazzo and H. E. Mgr. Vincenzo Paglia, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia, in sight of the Interfaith Meeting of Prayer for Peace that will be held in Krakow (Poland) from 6 to 8 September and that has for title: "The spirit of Assisi in Krakow".
During the audience were addresseded also the issues of poverty in the world and of the treatment ofHIV/AIDS in Africa, to whuch the Community of Sant'Egidio gives a great contribution with the program DREAM - 73,000 the patients in care in ten African countries - that the pope had way to know directly on the occasion of his recent journey in Cameroon.
Africa was mentioned also for the next Assembly of the African Synod.
The meeting of religions in Krakow and the pilgrimage of the religious heads to Auschwitz on the occasion of the seventy years from the beginning of the Second World War, favored a series of exchanges on subjects of the ecumenical and interfaith conversation.
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Spoon Perfect
It's the same every morning. I'm barely awake and my hand rummages through the container of mini-tea-spoons to grab one for my morning tea or coffee. I find the "right kind" of the two different designs which happen to be in there… An unbreakable habit. Yet, I don't remember fretting over purchasing the "right kind" of spoon, and after all, they're all thrown in together. But, I only lift the "right kind" out of the drawer.
In this case, a minute difference in design seems to make all the difference for my hand. What makes it feel "right", and why does it matter? Both spoons function in exactly the same way, and do the job well. Yet, my preference is strong, and feels related to how the spoon functions, as well as how it looks.
My personal anecdote is echoed in the experiences of countless other people, no doubt, including you. Here's one told by Paul Goldberger, the long-time architecture critic of the New York Times.
In 1949, the Barcelona chair, pictured here, "… was a relatively unknown item when Philip Johnson, the architect installed them in his Glass House in Connecticut. Guests who liked the chairs visually would exclaim over their beauty… and sit down and say something like 'My, it's not only good-looking but comfortable too'. But guests who didn't like the way the chairs looked, would make a derogatory comment or two, and upon sitting down would invariably sneer, 'And these chairs aren't even comfortable, either.' Goldberger continues, "…every good object… speaks of a combination of beauty and utility."*
Indeed, we acknowledge that good design should look good and function well. If the above examples and the ones of your own experience teach us anything, it's this: seeing is thinking!
When we evaluate the look of an object, we are not being shallow about it. On the contrary, we are thinking about it in a profound way: by drawing upon our conscious and unconscious mind.
That is the power of our visual sense.
We have been relying on it for our survival and success, from the moment we arrived on this earth, and certainly long before we developed a sufficient capacity for reasoning – critical thinking.
My morning tea or coffee ritual feels compromised if I use the spoon that looks mediocre. Philip Johnson's guests had to like the look of the chair to feel comfortable sitting in it.
So, why do we connect how something looks with how it functions?
I'm convinced that seeing draws from depths of our mind that reasoning alone doesn't. Out of those depths, one of our strongest desires, perfection, emerges. We don't know why our sense of perfection is so powerful, but our consciousness – capacity to think and feel – is telling us that it is.
Perhaps, because we carry a spec of the order/perfection of the cosmos in our genes, or, perhaps, it is instilled by culture in us.
I think it is wise that we trust our sense of sight, as we continue trying to understand how it works.
S. Arat
* 1978 Article, The Design Fallacy, from the book, On The Rise, Paul Goldberger, Penguin Books, 1985.
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This is the first of three guides to visiting the Central Valley refuges.
- This first guide talks about what Wildlife refuges are and do, and covers my Los Banos Loop: Merced and San Luis NWR
- The second part covers what I call the Lodi Loop: Cosumnes River Preserve, Staten Island, and Woodbridge Ecological Reserve (also known as Isenberg Crane Refuge)
- The third part cover my Northern day trip, Colusa NWR and Sacramento NWR near Williams and Willows
Every winter I spend as much time as I can visiting the wildlife refuges of California's central valley watching the birds and wildlife and taking photographs. I started visiting the refuges over a decade ago — my first visit was March of 2007, and when a Peregrine Falcon flushed 20,000+ geese into the air and the chaos of a mass flight — something you feel as much as you see and hear — happened, I was hooked.
Over the years I've studied the refuges and their winter inhabitants and come to understand how important the refuges are in the larger scope of the health of the birds of much of North America, and of the environment we live in.
What is a Wildlife Refuge?
A common confusion I hear when I talk about the refuges with people is they think the wildlife refuges are wilderness areas. They aren't. They are protected areas that are carefully modified and managed to simulate the kind of environments that the birds depend on to survive the winter, and which were in the past widespread throughout the central valley.
Unfortunately, human development has massively changed the central valley, filling in marshes and converting much of the land to farming and agriculture. Over 95% of the acreage that used to be used by migrating birds is now manicured farmland of little or no use to the birds. The wildlife refuges are islands of nature spread through the farmland to try to give the birds habitat they can safely use during the winter.
For the winter visitors, ponds have been scooped out and flooded, the vegetation is mown or there are controlled burns to keep them from becoming overgrown, when you visit you might see cows or sheep being pastured, which keeps those areas open for use by the birds that flock there. In some refuges, they even contract with farmers to grow food crops like corn for the birds to feed on to help make sure they get enough to give them the fat stores needed for the northern migration.
Because these are managed environments, these are areas that don't have the native beauty of a place like Yosemite, but spend time in them and you find their have their own quiet attractiveness I love to visit. And there are the birds.
The major species the refuges support are the Geese, Cranes and Ducks: in California, that means the Sandhill Crane, along with four species of goose: Greater white-fronted, Snow and Ross's, plus Cackling Geese, the Canada Goose's smaller cousin. With ducks, there are many species, including Northern Shoveler and Northern Pintail, the two most common, but you'll also find Gadwalls, Buffleheads, Canvasbacks, Ring-Necked ducks, teals and the inevitable Mallards. Also taking advantage of these areas are a wide variety of shorebirds, warblers, sparrows and many more species, with White-Faced Ibis being a fairly frequent visitor that's fascinating to watch hunt the shorelines. Ebird reports over 225 species have been seen at Merced National Wildlife Refuge, my reports 112.
Many refuges have good public access for people interested in visiting and exploring. The ones listed below all are open and accessible to all, often with an auto route you can drive, making them very accessible for those with limited ability to hike.
Many of them are open seven days a week, some refuges close for duck hunting during winter months two days a week, so it can make sense to check for closure dates the first time you visit. The refuges listed here support hunting but in areas that don't require closing the tour routes, but which might limit access to some secondary issues.
These are all easy places to visit: just show up and explore. They are open from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset; some of these locations are gated, but if you're inside when the gates close, they'll open to let you out at the exit. Don't be surprised if a Ranger shags you towards the exit if you stay too long beyond sunset.
I've got three routes I use on a regular basis in the winter that visit seven refuge areas around the state. Each one is a good day trip from either the San Jose or San Francisco area. I try to explore each loop at least twice each winter, and since it's the closest one to where I live, I'll visit the Los Banos area refuges more often.
This guide covers the Merced area refuges I visit, Merced National Wildlife Refuge and San Luis NWR. I'll cover the other two routes in later articles.
For each of these routes I'll describe how to visit the refuges and move between them, suggestions for what do and facilities you might want during the trip.
My refuge season typically starts November 1 and carries on until March. The refuges are still preparing for the winter season earlier, but I've experimented with trips as early as mid September and seen interesting birds, and later into June when migration is over and mostly what you'll find is the standard locals and some noisy marsh wrens. Some birds are early arrivers, and Northern Shovelers tend to be the first ducks to arrive, followed by Northern Pintails. The first cranes usually arrive in October, but the geese are often later, with the white geese (Snow and Ross's) November arrivals and it can be December before you see them in huge numbers. Mid-December to the end of February is what I'd define as "prime time" for the refuges.
There can be advantages to visiting early, though: when the refuges are only partially flooded, that limits the number of places the birds, especially cranes, will visit, and that can encourage them to wander closer to the roadways, giving better views.
It's important to remember: the birds are wild, and while they might get used to visitors on the tour routes, there's still hunting around and that keeps them on edge and so the shape of a human will often cause them to leave. And because they're wild, there are no guarantees: some days I go to the refuges and I don't see a goose or crane, and I might come back a couple of days later to 30,000 geese hanging out. It's always different.
Los Banos Loop
This is the loop I travel most frequently, with the refuges that I've spent the most time in. This area is roughly bounded by Santa Nella on the West, Los Banos on the South, and Merced to the Northeast.
Coming from greater Silicon Valley, you would take the 101 south to the 152 and take it east past the San Luis reservoir to Los Banos. By the way, after you pass Casa de Fruta but before you start the climb into the hills, keep an eye out, since there is a pair of bald eagles that live here that are commonly seen year round now.
Past the reservoir, you cross over I5 and continue through Los Banos you'll get to the 59 North taking you towards Merced, and then turn left on Sandy Mush road (you'll see a small power plant at the intersection, easy to see coming up). Continue on Sandy Mush and that will take you to our first stop, Merced National Wildlife Refuge.
Merced National Wildlife Refuge
Merced National Wildlife Refuge has about a 5 mile auto tour route that takes you through a large part of the refuge. You should stay in the car and use it as a blind, although we do get out when we want to use a scope; it's important to stay with the car and on the tour route and not wander into the closed refuge areas. Merced has a couple of short hiking paths, the Kestrel is near the entrance and the bittern route near the back observation area.
When you enter, you'll take a gravel road through trees and brush to the main observation platform with a small parking lot and a latrine, as well as the start of the Kestrel trail. it's not a bad idea to walk back down the entrance road since it often is a better birding area than either hiking trail for songbirds, warblers and the like. You can use the front observation platform to get a sense of the area and look at the pond here for interesting birds, especially rails in the reeds.
Then you get in the car and drive the tour route, stopping when you find interesting things. The birds usually feel less threatened by the car than by the sight of a person, so staying in the car is preferred. It's common to see someone get out of the car to get a better view, only to flush the birds away.
About halfway through there's another parking lot and a second observation platform which usually has good views of geese and cranes in the season. Also here is the Bittern trail, but the area around of the trail was an area they had to sacrifice and stop flooding during the droughts and so most of the trees are dead, and I don't find it very productive. I hope the water situation gets stable enough that they can rehabilitate it at some point.
This is a good area to get out and walk, though, because the trees along the road near the observation platform can be quite productive for songbirds and interesting small birds. It's an area where I've seen Lincoln Sparrow occasionally, and Orange-crowned warbler seems to be a regular in the winter.
It is fairly common for the White Geese to hang out here in the back of the refuge in the ponds. The cranes might be here as well, but they wander more widely.
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
When you're done with the tour route, it's time to get on the road and head over to San Luis NWR. The easy way is to take Sandy Mush back to 59, take it to 152, get back into Los Banos, and then turn north on the 165 until you get to Wolfsen road, then take it to the entrance of the refuge. If you feel a bit adventurous (and have a GPS), you can take Sandy Mush east until you hit Turner Island road, then take Turner Island until you get to Henry Miller road, which will take you to the 165. This will take you past some dairies you can stop and see if the blackbird flocks have any Tri-colored blackbirds in them.
San Luis NWR has two auto routes, each 5-6 miles long. The Tule Elk route takes you around a captive herd of Tule Elk, which are well worth seeing if they're visible, and pass a small river and through areas of mature trees and brush. The Waterfowl tour takes you out into the flooded ponds and through various stands of trees. Both tours have advantages — I like the Tule Elk route for songbirds and small birds of various types, and I've seen everything from quail to warblers to spotted towhees there. The waterfowl tour is where the bigger birds are and is probably the better place to invest your birding time.
The refuge has other areas you can drive through and explore and a couple of hiking trails and observation platforms. Some of them may be closed to birders on hunt days and in general, I find birding the two tours my primary goal.
The birds you find here and at Merced are similar, but each has some differences. I find Tundra Swan common in San Luis NWR but rare in Merced. The same with Ring-necked ducks. San Luis is in general better for raptors, especially Northern Harriers and I've found Swainson's Hawk there, but Merced is better for eagles, especially bald — but I wouldn't call them common.
San Luis has latrines near the entrance, but not along the tour routes. The headquarters and visitor center for the refuge complex (which includes Merced and a few others) is here and I really ought to go inside and check it out someday, but I'm usually busy birding.
Refuge strategies
You can cover both refuges on a day trip from San Jose pretty easily. Merced NWR is 2 hours of driving from San Jose unless there's a traffic issue or terrible weather. When I do the group outings for Santa Clara Valley Audubon I schedule them for 9-1, which means you don't have to get up crazy early to have a good visit, and some of the tour members usually stop by San Luis NWR for a visit on the way home. I usually suggest people get on the road by 7, at the first refuge around 9, and see what happens. Expect a drive home from San Luis NWR to run 90 minutes to 2 hours as well.
In general, I prefer Merced early in the morning and late in the afternoon, and I'll bird San Luis NWR mid-day, because it is much better for raptors and you want the air to warm up so they're more likely to be out and about. The other big draw for me are the tundra swans, and they're around all day.
Dawn and Dusk can be special times at all of these refuges. When the light starts building it seems like the entire refuge wakes up and takes flight at once, leaving their night roosts together to fly off to their day foraging locations, whether on the refuge or elsewhere. In the evening, as the sky darkens, all of these birds stream back into refuges to settle in for the night, and you can see huge flocks of birds flying in and landing.
Some visits, these morning and evening fly-ins and fly-outs can be pretty routine, but some visits the activity is stunning and it's well worth staying and watching. I would recommend starting with the evening fly-ins, since you have to get up very early to get to refuges for dawn. I always do my dawn and dusk watches at Merced, not San Luis, since it has the better action and the birds are more easily seen, but if you've never done this, I recommend the Isenberg Crane Refuge as the best place to try this out some evening. It's near Lodi and I'll talk about it later.
I tend to cover the refuges differently. I will typically start the day at Merced and circle the tour route twice. The first time is to get a sense of what's going on and where the birds are, and the second is to target the best areas where there is bird activity and good light for photography. There's nothing quite as frustrating as spending 45 minutes trying to get good shots of distant cranes and then driving half a mile to find a flock foraging 50 feet off the roadway. Not that this has ever happened to me. Of course, since birds move around, so the second trip may not match what you saw the first time, but it gives me a sense of what I want to focus my photography efforts on.
I will then head off to San Luis NWR for a couple of hours where my focus is on raptors and the waterfowl tour route. Merced can get a bit sleepy in the mid-day and early afternoon, where the swans and hawks make for good photography activity many days. Once I'm done with San Luis NWR, I'll often head back Merced and cover the tour route again, and then decide to either stay in the front parking area or return again to the back parking and stake out the geese in search of good sunset photography. Except for days where the refuges are non-productive and I simply go home instead.
That's my strategy for when I am doing photography. When my focus is birding, I'll take about twice as long on the routes and cover a lot less mileage but do so more thoroughly. I find I log about 10% fewer species when I'm thinking photography than when my focus is on birding, because what I'm looking for is different.
Bonus: Medieros Day Use Area
If you are looking for another area to explore while in this area, I recommend the Medieros Day Use Area. At the base of San Luis Reservoir is a body of water called O'Neill Forebay, which connects the dam to the California canal system. There's a fee for entry but it has both nice brush areas and a good water area that's deeper than you'll find at the refuges, so the mix of birds will be somewhat different: it's a much better location for diving ducks like Canvasback and Bufflehead, and for birds like grebes and scaups and the occasional loon.
You enter Medieros via I33 near the 152. Some days, especially if I'm doing a multi-day trip to these refuges, I'll grab lunch in Santa Nella, head here and spend an hour or two birding and enjoying a break from the refuges while I eat. It's a fun place to explore but for most day trippers, I think it's one stop too many for one day.
Food and Facilities
Depending on your preferences, you can bring meals with you, or you can take a break and go visit a nearby city to grab food. I usually recommend people heading to Merced to grab food in Los Banos on the way out, or from Merced NWR proper Merced is the closest and where Sandy Mush runs into 99 there are some fast food places including a Starbucks. Los Banos has the usual suspects.
There's also Santa Nella nearby, also with many of the usual suspects.
Laurie and I often decide on dinner on the way home, especially if we've stayed for the evening fly-in. Los Banos has a Black Bear Diner, which I depend on while tripping for solid and reliable, if not necessarily memorable food. Santa Nella has the locally famous Anderson's Pea Soup restaurant, sibling to the one on 101 in Buellton, and I've eaten there a couple of times and found it… okay.
Santa Nella is the smallest, pretty literally a hole in the wall but has a good supply of gas and fast food. Los Banos is larger and has a wider variety of places including sit-down and local feeding places like Esperanzas. Merced is usually in the wrong direction for me and I don't believe it brings anything interesting to the table that I can't find in Los Banos.
When I decide to stay overnight and extend the trip, I'll either stay in the Motel 6 in Santa Nella or the La Quinta Inn in Los Banos. Nothing fancy here but I find them clean, good value and comfortable for the price.
A final note: the refuges are a fair distance from "civilization" and if you're tripping from San Jose you'll be covering a couple of hundred miles. I always recommend you make sure you keep enough gas in your tank, and I think it makes sense to stop in Los Banos on the way and refill so you don't realize you're running short.
Next up, Lodi
In the next in this series I'll cover the places I visit when I visit the Lodi area. In the third piece I'll go further north into the Williams and Willows area. Hopefully this gives you an idea of why I visit these places every winter, and what to expect when you visit them as well. And as always, if you have questions, please drop me a line and we'll chat about them.
See you on the refuges!
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DENVER – National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) announced today that balloting for the inaugural NPF All-Star Game is available now at www.profastpitch.com, the official web site of NPF, as well as at the six National Pro Fastpitch club web sites.
Fans throughout the world can cast a maximum of 10 ballots. Balloting is scheduled to run through July 4, 2004 at 11:59 p.m. (ET). Following the conclusion of voting, NPF will officially announce the starters and the reserves for the game to be held on July 14 in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Monday, July 5.
In-stadium balloting will also begin today in New England, Texas and NY/NJ and will continue at all six NPF ballparks through July 4th.
Ballots can be printed from the NPF website and either, mailed or faxed to the league office at 303.316.2779. To print offical ballot CLICK HERE. In-stadium ballots should be completed and returned to the park staff at the conclusion of each home game.
This season's game will feature two teams comprised of NPF's top players fighting for geographical bragging rights and midseason supremacy. The "NPF East All-Stars" will consist of standouts from the Akron Racers, New England Riptide and NY/NJ Juggernaut, while the "NPF West All-Stars" will include all-stars from the Arizona Heat, California Sunbirds and Texas Thunder.
In addition to the Wednesday night All-Star game, the first and second place NPF teams will take on Team USA in a doubleheader on Tuesday, July 13th. Tuesday's action is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. CST with the second game to immediately follow.
Tickets can be purchased by calling ASA at (405) 425-3427 or a ticket order form can be downloaded from the league website at www.profastpitch.com. Tickets for Tuesday's doubleheader are $10, tickets for the NPF All-Star game on Wednesday, July 14th are only $8 or a 2-day series ticket can be purchased at the discounted price of $15.
NPF, the world's premier professional fastpitch softball league for women, consists of six teams located throughout the United States and features former USA Softball Women's National Team members, collegiate All-Americans and all-conference selections. NPF's 60-game regular-season schedule began on Tuesday, June 1 and concludes Wednesday, Aug. 18. The 2004 season features the inaugural NPF All-Star Game, the first-ever NPF Championship Semifinal and the first NPF Championship Series.
National Pro Fastpitch is headquartered in Denver, and has been in operation since 1997 under the names Women's Pro Fastpitch (WPF) and Women's Professional Softball League (WPSL).


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Evening Light Tabernacle invites you to attend the winter meetings that will fall during the first of the year. The meeting times are as follows:
Wednesday, December 31st at 7:00 PM
Friday, January 2nd at 7:00 PM
Saturday, January 3rd at 11:00 AM & 4:00 PM
Sunday, January 4th at 11:00 AM
On Saturday there will be a fellowship meal in between services. Ministering will be Bro. Wayne Lawson from Ohio and Bro. Josh Bennett from North Carolina. Please keep the meetings, and all that attend, in your prayers.


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My most ideal morning routine has been a few weeks in the making. After testing a few things and picking what gives me my greatest return I think I came up with a morning routine that would set me up for the best day given I had the appropriate time. This is a template that I am currently striving for on a daily basis.
Step 1: Nice Cold Glass of Water
One of the things that I wish I would have kept doing from back when I lost over 110lbs was starting every morning with a tall cold glass of water. I would wake up, walk downstairs at my parents house and get the biggest glass I could and fill that puppy up to the top with cold water. It a did a few things for me. First off it woke up me right away. When I'd drink this cold water I'd feel my insides get a little jolt. It singled to my body both physically and mentally that it was time to wake up fully and start the day.
It also did a few things for my diet. On days where I had a cold glass of water I wasn't ravenously hungry as I was going through the rest of my morning routine. I found that I ate less for breakfast on those days which left me feeling content without feeling bogged down with the extra food in my system as my day went on. Something that I noticed was that it also curbed some of the sweet cravings that I always have. That's why I always like starting the day off with a big glass of cold alkaline water.
Step 2: Meditation
Meditation is another practice that I used to participate in back when I was in college. I used it as a way back then to help out with my emotions. Now I use meditation to relax and clean the slate. It is a time of the morning that allows me to look back on what happened, process it and leave it there. I like to end my meditation whether it's 2 minutes or 10 minutes with setting an intention for the day. That intention can vary. When I first got into intention setting I would sometimes be paralyzied thinking that the intention had to be this big abstract thought for the day. I feel that some days those types of intentions are ok while other days intentions may be more around the lines of "Today I am going to focus on doing something nice for my fiance.".
Step 3: Breakfast / Coffee and Journaling
Like most people; I need my coffee in the morning. I've tried to slow down my intake of coffee but I noticed that I am just not a nice / happy person when I have no coffee at all to start my day. Lately with my coffee I try and have a breakfast that mainly consists of fats. During this time I like to write on a page of my journal. Each day is different but on most days I usually write down the intention for the day along with some things that I am grateful for. Looking back the things that have come up the most in the past 3 weeks that I am grateful for are; my fiance, my pup and the opportunities that haven't been reveled yet.
Step 4: Facial Skin Care Routine
I'd like to start off with the fact that for the past 28 years I had no skin care routine to speak of. I can thank the gods that I had good enough skin that I didn't have to worry about noticeable skin damage during my teen and tweens. But alas here we are, my face was the big red flag that let me know I needed to make a few changes in my life. I had always been interested in trying skin care products and it wasn't until I got a little nudge from my fiance that I realized a little can go a long way. I started my journey with just a simple cleanser and eye cream. After a couple weeks I started adding in more and more steps; that's when I started to really notice a difference. Below is what a long form of my morning skin care routine looks like. The exfoliator and face mask only happen about twice a week but the rest is every day and night. I've noticed a huge difference in my face. I have gained back some confidence and some pride in how I look. I think ending with my skin care routine is a solid way to end my morning routine, it signifies that I am ready to head out the door and take on the day.
- Cleanser – Boscia Detoxifying Black Cleanser
- Exfoliator – Neogen Green Tea Bio-Peel
- Serum – SkinCeuticals Phloretin CF
- Essence – Cosrx Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence
- Eye cream – Origins Ginzing Eye Cream
- Face mask – Dr. Jart+ Brightening Solution Face Mask
- Moisturizer – Laneige Water Bank Hydrating Gel
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From N., 6 December 2009, Salt crusts for beef?
Q: I have a question for you about it actually! Have you got anything to say about salt/herb crusts on roasts?
A: Thanks for your question. I haven't prepared the recipe you referenced [from the December/January 2009 issue of Fine Cooking] so I looked it up.
Although I haven't prepared a salt crusted beef, the technique makes sense. Although it seems that the meat would steam inside the crust, it will not. Instead, the crust bakes into a dry, clay-like oven – a secondary hot oven, if you like. Your roast should not steam inside the crust, if executed correctly. Instead, because it is a smaller environment than the larger oven, it should provide a more even heat, and allow the meat to cook without risk of the hotspots in your oven. This promotes a moister roast.
Your roast should brown inside the crust. The Maillard reaction, which is responsible for browning and involves some complex reactions among amino acides, occurs most reliably at tempratures over 110C, in the absence of water. As long as the surface of your roast is dry and the salt crust is properly executed, the roast should brown even inside the crust as long as the oven is hot enough. Also, the recipe in question provides for searing before encasing it in the crust, so you should have a nicely browned roast. You will need a hammer to remove the crust, which always provides a little drama.
That said, the salt crust does have drawbacks. You'd think saltiness would be the principal drawback, but it isn't – since the salt combines with flour to make the dough "oven," it doesn't really penetrate the meat that much. The main drawback is the fact that you will not be able to use any beef drippings for gravy or pan sauce, nor can you recover them for future use as cooking fat, for they will be inedibly salty. To me, this is a fatal flaw in the use of the salt crust – the beef tallow is nearly as precious as the roast, since I use it to fry potatoes. So if I were to make this dish, I would use a cut of meat that provides little in the way of drippings, like chateaubriand or beef tenderloin.
Another note about the recipe in Fine Cooking: I'm not sure the herbs, incorporated into the dough for the salt crust, will provide meaningful herb flavor to the roast. If I were preparing the roast from this recipe, I would marinate the roast in advance by mincing the specified herbs and combining with some crushed garlic cloves, ground black pepper, and some ground coriander seed. Marinate the beef in this mixture for a day if possible, turning to coat as necessary. When ready to roast, remove large chunks of herb and garlic and then wrap the meat as specified.


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James Baillieu
Born in South Africa, James studied at the University of Cape Town and the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Dussek, Malcolm Martineau and Kathryn Stott. He was appointed a Hodgson Junior Fellow in 2007, a Professor of Piano Accompaniment in 2011, and awarded an ARAM in 2012.
An accomplished chamber musician, soloist and accompanist, James collaborates with singers and instrumentalists including Lise Davidsen, the Heath Quartet, Adam Walker, Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Pumeza Matshikiza, Allan Clayton, Jacques Imbrailo, Ailish Tynan and John Mark Ainsley. Venues include Wigmore Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Bridgewater Hall, National Concert Hall Dublin and the Bergen, Spitalfields, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Bath, City of London, St Magnus, Norfolk & Norwich, Brighton, Verbier and Aix-en-Provence Festivals. As a soloist he has appeared with the Ulster Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and at the Petworth Festival with the Wiener Kammersymphonie.
Joseph Breinl
Numerous radio broadcasts and high-profile appearances have earned Joseph Breinl a reputation as one of the most highly respected piano accompanists and chamber musicians of his generation. He has performed to critical acclaim at many of the world's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Vienna's Musikverein, the Semperoper Dresden and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
Future engagements for Joseph include accompanying recitals with Christianne Stotijn for Oper du Rhin, Strasbourg.
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Iain Burnside is a pianist who has appeared in recital with many of the world's leading singers ("pretty much ideal" BBC Music Magazine). His recordings straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire from Beethoven and Schubert to the cutting edge Gramophone Award-winning NMC Songbook. Recent recordings include sets of Rachmaninoff and Medtner songs for Delphian ("the results are electrifying" Daily Telegraph).
He recently performed the three Schubert song cycles with Roderick Williams at Wigmore Hall, and returns to the hall in the 2018/19 season with his major series of Russian Song. Upcoming projects feature Rosa Feola, Ailish Tynan, Joyce DiDonato, Andrew Watts, Lawrence Brownlee, Benjamin Appl, Brett Polegato and Roderick Williams.
Away from the piano Burnside is active as a writer and broadcaster. As presenter of BBC Radio 3's Voices he won a Sony Radio Award. His play A Soldier and a Maker, created at the Guildhall School, was performed at the Barbican Centre and Cheltenham Festival and broadcast by Radio 3 on Armistice Day ("searing" Daily Telegraph). Iain Burnside is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange Park Opera.
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Tallinn (Estonia) born Ivari Ilja studied the piano at the Tallinn State Conservatoire with Professor Laine Mets and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Professor Vera Gornostayeva and Professor Sergey Dorensky.
Ivari Ilja is an internationally recognized accompanist and ensemble musician. His collaboration with renowned singers Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Irina Arkhipova, Maria Guleghina and Elena Zaremba has been particularly successful and acclaimed. Together they have performed many of the great concert stages of the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall of New York, The Kennedy Center of Washington, Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco, La Scala in Milan, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, the great halls of St. Peterburg Philharmonic and Moscow Conservatory, Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Suntory Hall of Tokyo, Musikverein of Vienna and Mozarteum of Salzburg.
Ivari Ilja has also held solo recitals in France, United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, Russia, Sweden, Finland and performed as a soloist with several symphony orchestras such as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra etc.
His repertoire mostly consists of romantic music, primarily of the works by Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, but also Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten and others.
Since 2003, he has repeatedly toured with great Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in USA, Europe, Hong-Kong, Japan and elsewhere.
Graham Johnson
Described as "that peerless song accompanist" (Daily Telegraph November 2015) Graham Johnson has performed with the world's leading recitalists, and has recorded extensively for Hyperion Records. He is Senior Professor of Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was made an OBE in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours list, created Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Government in 2002 and made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2010. In 2013 he was awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal, and received Honorary Doctorates from both Durham University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He was awarded the Hugo Wolf Medal in 2014 for his services to the art of song, and his three volume Schubert: The Complete Songs was also published in that year.
Malcolm Martineau
Malcolm Martineau is one of the world's greatest accompanists. He appears throughout Europe, North America, the Far East and Australasia with many of the world's greatest singers and records widely for the major recording companies. Recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon), Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI), recital records with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena Kozena (for DG) and Della Jones (for Chandos), the complete Faure songs with Sarah Walker and Tom Krause, the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion and the complete Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon. Other recordings include the complete Poulenc and Mendelssohn songs, Schubert with Florian Boesch, My True Love Hath My Heart with Dame Sarah Connolly, Heimlische Aufförderrung and Scene! with Christiane Karg, Portraits with Dorothea Röschmann, Reger with Sophie Bevan.
Gary Matthewman
Gary Matthewman is one of the UK's leading song pianists. A regular artist at Wigmore Hall, other appearances include New York's Carnegie Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and halls in Prague, Lucerne, Basel, Lisbon, Washington, Toronto, São Paulo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sydney. His UK Festival appearances include the Aldeburgh, Buxton, Glyndebourne, Leeds Lieder and Oxford Lieder Festivals.
Recital partners include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Joyce DiDonato, Sir Thomas Allen, Sumi Jo, Nuccia Focile, Mark Padmore, Ailyn Perèz, Dimitri Platanias, Sylvia Schwartz, Kate Lindsey, Markus Werba, Kate Royal, Andrei Bondarenko, Louise Alder, Adam Plachetka, Benjamin Appl, Sarah-Jane Brandon and Roderick Williams. Gary has made numerous live broadcasts and recordings for BBC Radio 3, and his recent recording of Schubert's 'Winterreise' with Matthew Rose received widespread critical acclaim, featuring as Gramophone Magazine's Recording of the Month and BBC Radio 3's Disc of the Week.
He is Professor of Vocal Repertoire at the Royal College of Music, and song coach for the Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Joseph Middleton
Highly acclaimed pianist Joseph Middleton specialises in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music. He is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician in Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music.
Joseph collaborates with many of the world's finest singers in major venues worldwide, and has an award-winning and fast-growing discography. He is a regular guest at New York's Alice Tully Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Zürich Tonhalle, Köln Philharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Musée d'Orsay in Paris and London's Wigmore Hall. Recent seasons have also taken him to the Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Ravinia, and Stuttgart Festivals.
Joseph collaborates with internationally established singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Ian Bostridge, Sarah Connolly, Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Wolfgang Holzmair, Christiane Karg, Katarina Karnéus, Simon Keenlyside, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, John Mark Ainsley, Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson and Roderick Williams. His critically acclaimed discography includes discs with Carolyn Sampson (Radio France's Disc of the Month & nominated for a Gramophone Award), Ruby Hughes (BBC Music Magazine's Recording of the Month), Dame Felicity Lott, Amanda Roocroft, Clara Mouriz, Matthew Rose and Allan Clayton. Joseph made his BBC Proms debut in 2016 with Iestyn Davies and Carolyn Sampson.


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After all the experimenting on my best-friend turned curator of the blog, Gona Khanijo, it was time for me take the front side of the camera again!
I had planned to do this post a few days ago, but Delhi weather was just not co-operating with my schedule, thanks to the sudden rain showers. One more reason added to the long list why I hate those grey skies, they make everything look so sad & gloomy (don't they?), plus I can't even shoot and post for you guys.
As we shot this look in the Golden hour of the day, the pictures came out to be so good that they hardly needed any editing (less work,yay!) and enhanced the overall colors of the look (talk about good natural light?)
I am not a very big fan of florals, but when it comes to styling, you got to be versatile & try new things. Also, its Spring, so nothing should stop me from doing a post on florals.
There's always something very sexy about short dresses and long boots and also they're a perfect fit for this season, only this time that I tried a floral print & it worked very well for me.
So, giving this floral dress a whole new twist, I combined it with leather boots and a leather jacket of the same color. Both the things made the whole look so wearable & trendy for this weather that you just don't have to worry if its going to be cold outside as you're totally ready to dance the night away!
Since I wanted the look to be a little hard core and fuss-free, I opted for a no-accessory look. The only baubles I happen to wear are a few rings & my favorite pair of reflectors which by the way again looks gorgeous in this light! I am guessing reflectors are going to be a good investment this season, what say?
So girls, pull out that all time favorite floral dress of yours and put on your leather boots (please ditch those heels or flats) with a leather jacket (no,don't put it inside already) and complete the look with your trendiest pair of glasses (brownie points for reflectors, obviously?)
Do send me your pictures if you wear the same combination, I would love to post it on my Instagram. 🙂
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On Saturday, as a part of the 9th annual Cedars Open Studios, more than 60 artists provided the opportunity to share a little insight into their own creativity by opening up their studios to the public. Complete with food, music, and of course, wine, most studios were at capacity with the steady flow of patrons and the curious passersby alike.
The studios were independently as unique as the individual artwork created within, whether it was glass blowing, photography, or expressive hula-hoop dancing.
I started my tour at the Art Hotel Gallery, where the artists - 15 in the Art Hotel alone - rented the space as a co-op, effectively lowering the sale prices for the lack of commission. Just two doors down was Groovy Monkee tattoo, where owner Matt Beasley proudly displayed his and his tattoo artist' work; but not in tattoo form.
"It can be skin or any other medium," said Beasley, "everyone here is an artist full time."
Right down Akard a few blocks sits the Re Gallery + Studio, conveniently located next to Lee Harvey's, (which wasn't just the favorite pit stop of the day, but showcased artwork itself). Inside the Re gallery were spectacular pieces solely from recycled, repurposed and reclaimed material.
The mood of the day was uncommonly communal and warm, especially for late November. It was no better felt than in South Side on Lamar where the artists opened up their studios, which also happen to be their homes. Most know that the South Side flats used to be an old Sears warehouse, but right where the loading docks used to be now, the multi-purpose place has store-front style studios specifically for artists, with their apartments located behind.
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One occupant named Sam Fuller, but better known as the man behind "Old Black Man Art", came to own one of these studio/flats by means that echoed the themes of the day. Inside, his jazz inspired paintings and drawings, provided a strange backdrop in where he told me that just a year or two prior, he was homeless on the street. But he kept true to his art, and by a stroke of luck was actually contacted by the MTV show The Buried Life.
The premise of the show is where four young men are completing their "bucket lists" but not without helping someone down and out along on the way. MTV producers got in contact with Sam and not only found his estranged son, which he hadn't seen in 17 years, but put his art on display as well, starting in the South Side coffee shop, Opening Bell.
Fast forward to last Saturday, and Sam was happily working on a new piece as hundreds came in to look at the artists in the South Side Studios. Even though it is in its 9th year, the Cedar Open Studio event is invaluable to the community, and judging by the overall response, will be a continued tradition throughout Dallas.


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Migraine Headaches
Migraines are believed to be brought on by imbalances in brain chemicals, as serotonin levels drop significantly during a migraine attack. The dropping of levels is usually caused by a combination of "triggers," and it is not completely understood why certain triggers can affect certain individuals but not others. A combination of genetics and environmental factors may play a role in determining what activates migraines, and they can vary from person to person. Sometimes, it may take several sessions of trial and error to figure out what initiates migraine attacks.
Some common migraine headache triggers include:
- Hormonal changes: Changes in estrogen, a female hormone, are linked to migraine episodes. Women are generally more susceptible to migraine headaches than men, especially before and after a menstrual cycle, or during menopause. Talk to a doctor for hormone management techniques.
- Unhealthy diet: Harsh food and drink, such as alcohol or processed foods, can cause migraine in certain individuals. Foods that contain aspartame (a type of artificial sweetener), monosodium glutamate (better known as MSG), nitrates, preservatives, too much caffeine, or too much salt can activate migraines. Fasting individuals or those who often skip meals may also experience more frequent migraine attacks as well, so be sure to eat healthy foods and do not skip meals.
- Stress and anxiety: An accumulation of stress at home, work or school can be a factor that contributes to migraine attacks. Be sure to occasionally employ relaxation techniques to help ward off stress.
- Medication: Migraine attacks may be a side effect of an ongoing drug therapy for some people. Be sure to talk to your doctor to seek other medication options or help with migraine management.
- Sensory factors: Loud noises, flashing lights, or pungent perfumes can be migraine headache triggers for certain people.
- Physical factors: Overexertion, extreme temperatures, and eyestrains can serve as triggers for these pounding headaches.
- Irregular sleep cycles: Changes in sleep patterns, such as those experienced during time-changing jet lag, can be a contributing factor for migraines. Napping, oversleeping, or too little sleep can also be culprits.
Migraines are most commonly characterized by a moderate to severe throbbing or pounding sensation on the head. While about 60 percent of migraines occur on one side of the head, 40 percent of migraine occurrences can happen to both sides of the head.
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- Increasing pain with routine physical activities
- Symptoms can last longer than 72 hours
Prevention and Treatments
While there is no definite treatment that can "cure" migraine headaches, simple home remedies have been proven to be extremely effective at providing relief. Generally, migraine management can be carried out by cutting off the migraine trigger and taking OTC pain relievers, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen. The best way to manage migraines is to take preventative measures against any future attacks.
If you are experiencing chronic, frequent recurrence of migraine headaches, it may be advisable to see a healthcare professional to see if you qualify for migraine preventative therapy. Some forms of such therapy include:
- Botulinum toxin type A: better known as the cosmetic injection, Botox, this substance has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat migraines. They are administered through injections to the forehead and the neck.
- Antidepressants: antidepressants help prevent migraines by inhibiting certain chemical reactions in the brain. You do not need to be depressed to receive this therapy for migraine prevention, as it is up to your physician's evaluations to determine if this is a suitable measure.
- Anti-seizure drugs: this type of medication has been shown to be effective in reducing the frequency of migraine recurrences, but may also come with undesirable side effects, such as hair loss, cramps, or dizziness.
- Cardiovascular drugs: while beta blockers are better known as cardiovascular drugs meant to lower high blood pressure and artery diseases, they have been shown to decrease the frequency and severity of migraine headaches. Another type of cardiovascular drug, calcium channel blockers, has also been shown to be effective in migraine prevention.
Your doctor may also give you prescription-strength opiates or pain relievers if he or she deems suitable. It is advised for the affected individual to keep a journal or record of migraine attacks to track the frequency and severity of the recurrences to help better determine the form of treatment or prevention. Keeping a journal may also reveal your unique triggers that cause migraine headaches for effective management.


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For dancers, actors and theatrical performers, one play seems to be revered. It is the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line, the original holder of the record for longest-running play on Broadway.
As Theater Works in Peoria prepares to perform this show on its stage, the director, cast and crew are dedicated to doing justice to this ground-breaking show. For those not familiar, audience members witness an audition of young dancers who desperately wish to secure a role in a play called A Chorus Line. During the audition, each of the characters is asked a series of questions by the director, and the stories that emerge about their lives are surprising, sometimes disturbing, and deeply personal.
The fascinating part about this show is that none of the characters are contrived; they're all based on real people; namely young, starry-eyed dancers trying to make it on Broadway in the 1970s. Feeling a mutual bond, but still basically strangers, the group gathered for a number of taped sessions where they talked about their lives, hopes and reasons for wanting to perform. Michael Bennett, award-winning choreographer and director, then turned those hours of taped sessions into the basis for this play. Some of the dancers who participated in the taped sessions performed in the original production of A Chorus Line—some even played themselves.
Mollie Lajoi, choreographer and director of this production, has a long-standing love affair with the play. She says it was a childhood friend and fellow "theater geek" who introduced her to A Chorus Line when she was 7 or 8 years old. While being driven to and from drama classes together, her friend would sing songs from the show, and Lajoi immediately fell in love with them.
Lajoi has acted in the play twice for different companies, and she says it feels like it's a dream come true to be directing it.
"This amazing show is so close to my heart," she says. "When Theater Works contacted me, I felt nervous and excited to take on the role. I want to be able to tell the story as well as possible, because it's an important story, and because these characters are based on real people and you have to be more sensitive to that."
Lajoi's direction to her cast, in regard to getting into character is simple: get to know the person you're playing.
"I'm telling them to do their research. They can't be acting like these people, they need to be them."
Actor and choreographer Kat Bailes is honored to play one of the show's most pivotal characters, Cassie—a veteran dancer who had some success on Broadway, moved away in hopes of becoming a star, and then sadly returned to New York when her dreams weren't realized, finally ending up at auditions for A Chorus Line.
"At this point, Cassie has realized that she doesn't need to be a star, she just needs to dance," Bailes says. "I certainly have gone through that process where I don't need to be the lead role, I just need to be dancing. I feel like I know her because, if you're an actor or dancer, you know what this life is like—it's just a steady drumbeat of rejection. So you have to love it so deeply, like myself and Cassie, that you just want to keep doing it."
Trey DeGroodt, who plays Paul, a young man striving to discover and accept his identity, admits that he didn't know much about A Chorus Line until he was cast in it a few years ago.
"This is my second time playing Paul, but when I first got the part, I didn't know much about him except that he had a really long monologue," DeGroodt says with a laugh. "Then I actually read about the show and the guy my character is based off of, and I was like, 'Wow, that's amazing,' then I really got into that character. From then on, I couldn't stop looking things up. Paul is based on one main guy, combined with a few different people's backstories. It's just so fascinating."
It's obvious that everyone involved with Theater Works' production of the show have developed a profound respect for it, and an even greater appreciation for the continual struggle that is the life of a dancer. Michael Schwenke, who plays Mike in the show, hopes audiences will walk away with the same appreciation.
"I love this show because it really opens people's eyes who have never dealt with theater people before," Schwenke says. "It's like, 'Oh, there's a reason why they're like this,' or, 'Something must've happened in their childhood that really made them realize that performing is for them.' It's giving a different perspective. It would be beautiful if the audiences were able to just have a deeper appreciation than they had coming in."
A Chorus Line, Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, 10580 N. 83rd Drive, Peoria, 623.815.7930, theaterworks.org, various times Friday, February 16, to Sunday, March 4, $36, student and senior discounts available.


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When I first met Mr Pine Nut, he was more or less constantly engaged in a determined effort to make Really Good Cornbread. Except he didn't want to use a recipe.
I tried to convince him that Baking is a Science, and Requires Accurate Measurements, but he wouldn't believe me.
So we had quite a few pans of rather heavy cornbread together, unless I was cooking, in which case I used the recipe on the cornmeal bag, like my mother had always done. It came out okay, though it never seemed to be as nice as when my mom made it.
Eventually I got the recipe my mother-in-law had used when working in a retirement centre kitchen, and I've used it ever since with good success and very few adaptations (the original called for eggs, so that was my main change). It always comes out perfectly, except when I try to use flax eggs in it. Flax eggs do NOT work in this recipe. I don't know why. I've tried a number of times and with varying amounts of water. So I stick with the Ener-G egg replacer for this one.
The amount in black give you for either a pie pan or 9×9″ square pan. The amount in red gives you a 13×9″ pan batch.
Corn Bread
1 c (2 c) corn meal (sometimes I use a blend of corn flour and corn meal)
1/2 c (1 c) wheat flour
1/2 c (1 c) white flour
2 T (1/4 c) sugar
1/2 T (1 T) baking powder
1/2 tsp (1 tsp) salt
1/2 T (1 T) Ener-G egg replacer
2 T (1/4 c) water
1/3 c (2/3 c) oil (can do half applesauce)
1 c (2 c) non-dairy milk (any will work, and water will do in a pinch)
1/2 c (1 c) frozen corn (optional)
Now here are the SuperComplicated(tm) instructions!
In bowl #1, combine all dry ingredients.
Transfer contents of bowl #1 to bowl #2 and stir just until combined.
Pour into a sprayed pan and bake at 350. The 8×8″ will take roughly 20-25 minutes, and the 13×9 at least 30 minutes.
The toothpick test works this way for this recipe: at the end of your baking time, if it comes out clean, let it go another couple of minutes.
You can also do this in a cast-iron skillet with excellent results. I've been doing it that way a lot lately.


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Going from one to two (or more) kids: The challenges, parenting hacks and let-it-gos
Originally published in Raising Arizona Kids Magazine, April 2019
Our household boasts three cribs, two bunk beds and dressers filled with at least $100 in diapers every month. We own two pack-and-plays, two bouncers and four car seats. There are no twins in our home — just three toddlers and another babe on the way.
We didn't get here overnight, and with each additional child, we learned more fully how to manage our household, keep our sanity and love our children better. Nick and I welcomed our first child in March 2016, and a year and 10 days later, we became foster parents to a 4-month-old. The transition from one child to two happened by design, but it was not easy.
We expected our second child to fit smoothly into the schedule we'd perfected with our firstborn, and we were sadly disappointed to learn how unrealistic that assumption was. Becoming parents of two was a huge lesson in logistics and juggling. It took about six or eight weeks of drudgery to get a handle on managing adult conversations, tag-teaming dinner and knowing who was better fit to give someone a bath.
Read the full article here.
Originally published in Raising Arizona Kids Magazine, April 2019
Call me crazy, put me in the category of cold-hearted mothers and judge me all you want. I have relieved myself of one of the biggest pressures of modern motherhood, and I am here to invite you to do the same.
When our eldest was born three years ago, I talked to countless moms about what they looked for and liked about their childcare. As I toured a few sites and talked to program directors, I came upon a particularly interesting characteristic. It wasn't related to safety practices, pick-up times or extra amenities like apps that allow parents to watch their child's classroom during the day.
What made me sit back and wonder was a little piece of paper that asked parents whether they would like to know if their baby crawled for the first time or took those first momentous steps while at daycare — or would they prefer the provider say nothing about it?
Read the full article here.
A brief peek into the fresh realities of saying goodbye to a child you loved as your own
We bought him a puzzle in the dollar section at Target this week. And Zeke asked when he's coming home.
I cry my eyes out in the car at least every other day and text my girlfriends, mentors, and family numerous times throughout the week just to take a breath.
I feel like I'm in a lion's den of confusion and pain I didn't see coming. I knew that reunification would be hard—I didn't realize that reunification could turn out quite like ours did.
Add the pregnancy and I'm a hot mess. It is a unique pain to not be able to see the boy you called son, while looking ahead to the birth of another child. He can't be replaced and he or she will be his or her own person. *Deep breath*
So, despite the beautiful photos strewn across the internet and the positive steps you might perceive our family to be taking in grief, we're still wrecked.
Yes, it is seriously AWESOME that we're going to a gym now (should've done this a year a go, see Instagram), but going to the gym won't preclude me from hanging on to every word in the faithful text of support I'll receive from my cousin tomorrow. He's not forgotten just because he's not here.
This isn't a blog post to elicit sympathy—truly—but one to just be real and write it out in. I can't share the nitty-gritty details, nor would I. But I can just tell you that expectations are the root of a lot of pain and when you love someone big, it's going to hurt big. And that's OK. Pain isn't to be escaped-- we have to walk through these seasons and feel all the things. We're doing well at what we can, but 'doing things' and 'talking over things' and 'showing up for life' won't turn this story around or suddenly erase sadness and grief. This season will last as long as it needs to because we're not control of this process. Only God can dictate what is ahead of us.
If you're pursuing foster care, please don't stop. These kids and their families need people to step into the mess of state dependency and show up. What we did and hope to do again is n e c e s s a r y.
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The Enneagram and Me
A road toward self acceptance and increased self awareness
About this time last year, I entered a cloud of loneliness in friendships that often left me begging Nick to explain to me why I felt like I was 'too much' for everyone around me. My closest friends were and have remained the people I met in grade school, high school, and college. There are a handful of exceptions-- and to those fierce women-- I am so grateful.
But last year, all I could see in front of me was the time I spent with other people who I just couldn't totally click with. Everything about us was congruent on the surface but I felt like I was holding myself back and just couldn't sink in to a genuine friendship. Then, I took the Enneagram and as trite as it sounds, my perspective shifted and the clouds literally parted.
The emotional rundown from a first-time foster parent
We decided to become foster parents because we knew there were kids needing homes and families needing support. We did not become foster parents because we were seeking heartbreak, looking to struggle with intense trauma, or become more wholly aware of generational challenges. But, here we are. We're here because we feel called, we know it's needed, and dammit, we signed up for this.
So how does reunification actually feel? It's as painful as people assume and more revealing of God's blessings than you'd ever guess.
It's basically a rollercoaster of every emotion ever.
Here's my list of all the feels...