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TRANSCRIPT One Bad Mother Ep. 378: Sometimes Daddy Cries, with Guest Todd Rennebohm
Biz speaks with Todd Rennebohm about his new children's book about living with depression while parenting. Having depression is normal and having kids is normal, but having both at the same time can be hard to explain to kids. Plus we recorded this episode before the election! Let's see if our prediction was correct? (Our prediction was that we'd be glad we had all that stashed Halloween candy.)
Podcast: One Bad Mother
Episode number: 378
Guests: Todd Rennebohm
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biz ellis
Hi. I'm Biz.
theresa thorn
And I'm Theresa.
Due to the pandemic, we bring you One Bad Mother straight from our homes—including such interruptions as: children! Animal noises! And more! So let's all get a little closer while we have to be so far apart. And remember—we are doing a good job.
"Summoning the Rawk" by Kevin MacLeod. Driving electric guitar and heavy drums. [Continues through dialogue.]
This week on One Bad Mother—sometimes, daddy cries. We talk to Todd Rennebohm about his new children's book about living with depression. Plus, Biz survives Hell Week and snack attacks!
Biz and caller: Wooooo!
I… am doing okay. I am calling with a check-in and right now I am okay. I am sitting in the pharmacy parking lot, drinking some iced coffee because I got here a little early—three minutes before they opened—and I'm going to go get my flu shot and this is a moment of mom time. Because getting a flu shot is like… [Biz laughs.] I don't know. Getting a pedicure now. [Laughs.] [Biz laughs.] Everybody get their flu shot! I'm doing a pretty good job, and so are you! Bye! Love the show.
"Getting a flu shot is the new manicure" is the greatest ad campaign for flu shots that [through laughter] I've ever heard. Wow! Okay. That—you are—I just wanna hang out in a socially distanced parking lot with you and have iced coffee and talk more about that. You're doing a great job! Thanks for checking in! And—good job getting somewhere a little early so you can have a little mama time, and good job making sure you had coffee, and good job making sure you got your flu shot! We're about to load the car up with [through laughter] all of us and do the drive-thru flu shot that our local place has? Surprise! You're all gonna get shot. [Laughs.] But yes. Flu shot! Flu shot! Flu shot! Woo! I think you're remarkable. Thank you for checking in! Guys? It is time for me to do the thing that has become so natural. It happens when I'm on the street. It happens when I'm just laying asleep. I wake up and I start yelling, "Thank you! Thank you, essential workers!" I'm gonna spotlight a big focus on our healthcare workers, once again, as we see a surge in this pandemic. Does anybody else feel like this is like a zombie apocalypse? I know that you all do. One of my favorite people, Liz Sauer and her podcast, Ghost in the Burbs, recently had a little spooky story. They kept referring to things like—it's like slightly the future? Of the pandemic? And in the pandemic timeline? And they're like, "Did you see the pictures out of Japan?" "Yes. I'd seen the pictures out of Japan, but I didn't know it could do that to your body!" "Yeah. Who knew it was gonna be—" [Laughs.] "Who knew it was gonna be a plague?" Right? Like, just like how this develops. Anyway. Back to my point—there's a surge! And it is filling up our hospitals and our medical centers again and so I have to say… thank you, thank you, to every single person who works in those facilities. The doctors. The nurses. All the administrative staff. All of the people who keep these places clean and spotless and sanitized so that whether we are experiencing COVID symptoms or any other reason to have to go to a doctor's office or hospital, we can go in with confidence and feel safe. So I really appreciate you and I know that this is impossibly difficult. So thank you. I also wanna shine a spotlight on every person who volunteered to work as poll workers during this election, and those who continue to be counting the ballots and helping make sure that everybody's vote is heard. There are still jobs that happen in an election after voting day, so thank you, thank you, thank you! And everybody. You're all doing it! You're all doing it! Teachers, thank you for continuing to show up. School administration? Thank you for still showing up. Thank you for creativity, people who are really putting out creative solutions and thoughts and ideas for how to make this more bearable every day. I see you. I appreciate you. And I will never get tired of driving by and rolling my window down and screaming out of it [shrill scream] "Thank youuuu!" [Regular voice] Thank you.
Guys? Let's just all take sort of a collective breath about the week of hell we just all went through. We just got through Halloween. We just got through daylight savings. I am so sorry to all of us. And we just got through with the election. I don't know! I'm recording this before the election! I have no idea what is [through laughter] going to happen! It's either business as usual right now or [through laughter] we're in a complete civil war. I don't know! But thank god I have a stockpile of Halloween candy to get me through most of it! Speaking of Halloween candy, I'm just gonna wrap up on one more little note of things happening around my house. Has anyone noticed that if your child is remote learning from home, an increase in need for snacks? There's a lot of snacking. Ellis sits down. After breakfast. After two snacks. He will sit down. School will start. And, "Can I have a snack?" "You just had two snacks!" And they're big snacks! It's like a Fiber One bar, dude! That is full of stuff. And like a granola bar! Full of stuff! At first I tried to like fight against it and now I'm just like shoveling different versions of something that I think is very filling and should definitely do it? And it doesn't do it? And he just keeps eating? And then… swear to god, it becomes lunch. I'm like, "Are you ready for lunch?" "No. I filled up on snacks." And I'm like, "Gahhh!" And— [Laughs.] It's like, I'm like, "You're not watching TV right now! I mean, it feels like it, but endless snacking." Can't wait to see how that turns out. As we continue on through weird COVID life. But something we have spoken about quite a bit is how the coronavirus has been affecting our mental health, and long before this pandemic started, we have spoken a great deal about mental health. Especially with parents. And how important it is to have open and honest discussions about that with our family. Which I think ties in nicely to what we're gonna talk about today with Todd Rennebohm, and his new children's book, Sometimes Daddy Cries.
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This week, we are talking to Todd Rennebohm. He is a husband and father of two boys who has been advocating for mental health issues since 2016. Todd has personal experiences with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Today he is in recovery and works with others as a support in an addiction treatment center. Welcome, Todd! [Laughs.]
Wooo!
Wooo! [Laughs.] [Todd laughs.] I feel almost like I should've like ended that bio with "And he's here to talk about cabaret!" Right? Like— [Laughs.] [Todd laughs.] Just nothing to do with any of that. But actually what I will say—that I didn't add into that—is we had him here because you have written a new book for children called Sometimes Daddy Cries, and we're gonna get into that in a moment. But before we do, I would love to know—who lives in your house?
Well first off, me. My wife, Jennifer. My almost-sixteen-year-old son Jack, and my almost-fourteen-year-old son Howard. And two dogs, Lars and Ben.
Two dogs! Lars and Ben.
Lars. Like—
Lars!
Lars Ulrich of Metallica. [Biz laughs. Todd joins in.]
I—what kind of dogs are they?
One is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel mixed with a Sheltie, and the other one is just a little mutt. I have no idea what he is.
Oooh, I love a mutt! [Todd laughs.] Alright. Well, let's talk about the book. Sometimes Daddy Cries. This is a children's book and it's told through the eyes of a boy whose father suffers from depression. He sees his dad get sad, rest, and even go to the hospital, all while comparing his father's depression to a physical ailment. I… thought the story was very… I liked that it was like this very simple, direct telling? Of what it's like to live with depression as a child? I guess I wanna start with—what—I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm all buckled up! [Todd laughs.] What led to writing this book?
Uh, okay. So about ten years ago—well actually, I mean, I've had anxiety and depression since as long as I can remember. I was in grade four diagnosed with a stomach ulcer, I had such bad anxiety. But it was about ten years ago, it was really getting bad. I was just—I'd had a suicide attempt. I was in and out of the psych ward. I was using lots of marijuana. Drinking lots to get rid of the anxiety, y'know? [Laughs.]
Yeah! Self-medicate, man. I've—y'know. I know. [Todd laughs.]
Yeah. But—and then was about three years after that I went into addiction treatment center and that's really when I started getting healthy. I mean, after the hospital and after the suicide attempt I thought I was—y'know, "I'm all better now," but it— [Biz laughs.] —I was still drinking and using marijuana like all day, every day. So I mean the best—the very best thing I ever did for my mental health was get sober. Better than any pill, any doctor, anything. So it was about—it's actually four years November 6th, is when I got sober.
Well thank you!
Yeah! It's hard work, man!
[Through laughter] You're telling me!
Yeah! It's really difficult! [Laughs.]
I actually work at the addiction center I went to now so it's kinda nice. But when I was going through all that stuff I could see my kids were… y'know, they were… they didn't really know what the hell was going on with dad. And I mean we tried to explain it the best we could with, y'know, "Dad's just sick." So it wasn't until I got sober—well actually, that's a bit of a lie. [Biz laughs.] The— [Laughs.] The night I wrote the very first draft was the night I got sober. I was actually, like, puking-sick drunk. Suicidal. I woke my wife up in the middle of the night and it was just five minutes before I puked and woke her up that I actually wrote the first draft of this book. So. And I—people always ask me what came through my head when I wrote it and like, "I don't know! I was really drunk and sick!"
Drunk! Yeah! [Todd laughs.] I gotta tell you— my first question is, "What was the draft like?" [Laughs.] [Todd laughs.] I am fascinated to know what the draft would be like. Like, that just, y'know. [Laughs.]
Todd: I don't even know if I have it anymore! [Laughs.] Biz: I mean, not to laugh at alcoholism or depression.
But the book—yeah. That draft must've been a—
Was very vulgar and lots of slurring.
Very—I was gonna say! I just was like, huh. [Todd laughs.] Anyway.
No, it was really short, actually. It was really, really short. [Biz laughs.]
"Daddy is sad. The end." [Laughs.] [Todd laughs.]
Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. [Laughs.] Well actually I have—my wife's cousin worked in publishing and that's what—I showed it to her and she—yeah, she basically said, "This is… good luck. This is basically a poem. This isn't gonna be a book." So I worked on it over the years and, y'know, off and on. Being a flaky mental health type person. [Laughs.] [Biz laughs.] And then an artist—I would flake out for like a good year at a time. So I talked to a person that I knew was a good illustrator and we kind of started working on it together. That was the plan, actually at first, was her and I were gonna work on this together. But then again, I flaked out for a good year. And then COVID hit and I was sitting in my house, quarantined, and I thought, "What a great time to finish this project." So I finished it!
Well actually, it is a great time to have finished it and to have it out there, because the pandemic is not doing anything great for mental health right now. Particularly for parents! I mean… y'know. It's… it's a lot. I—but before we get into that, I do wanna circle back to the illustrator. What is so—I mean, the book is beautiful.
It is. She did an amazing job.
Yeah. She did. And what is so striking is… the use of colors to sort of show the emotional state of what's happening. So when the father is having, y'know, a episode of depression, it's—he is grey. The room around him is grey. But the son is in color. The wife is in color. The cat is in color. Right? Like, there's… y'know, outside. I remember—it—so anybody who listens to the show knows that I also have depression. And—
Oh, right on!
Biz: Yeah! Right? Yeah! Secret—I'll give you the secret handshake later. Todd: Good for you! [Laughs.]
And the picture in particular where the page, it says, "Daddy needs rest so he sleeps on the couch or in his bed." But… what I—I am struck less by the image of daddy laying on the couch, all in grey, but the bright-colored life happening on the other side of the window.
Because for me, that is very much what depression feels like. Where when it was at its worst, it would feel like I'm looking at everything on the other side of this window and it's all fine and normal and beautiful, but I can't get to it.
Todd: Absolutely. Biz: I'm on this side of the window.
So I just—I have to—how much did you and the illustrator work together on this, or did she very naturally have an instinct for communicating these feelings?
She was just very natural. She also, y'know, has depression, anxiety issues. So I sent her—I kinda—we talked briefly about it and then I sent her the manuscript. And she maybe sent me four or five pictures and she's like, "How's this?" And I mean, I was—I was crying. They were so beautiful.
They're beautiful.
I said, "Keep doing whatever you're doing. I'm just gonna shut up and just let you go with it." And yeah. It's—I mean— [Laughs.] I mean I don't wanna pooh-pooh the manuscript— [Biz laughs.] —but if it wasn't for the illustrations, I don't know if this book would be as amazing as it is. So.
They work hand-in-hand really, really well. Which is, I think, always a remarkable thing to happen when creating a book. [Laughs.] Like I'm always just like— [Todd laughs.] "Oh my god! Those two things went together and actually helped and supported and it wasn't like, y'know." It's like a little magic, y'know, act that happens.
You wanna hear something funny? I actually—
Oh yes! Yes, I do! [Both laugh.]
Well, it's not ha-ha funny.
[In a disappointed tone] Oh. [Laughs.]
But I sent— [Laughs.] I sent the illustrations and the manuscript to a publisher and they tore it apart. They said, "These illustrations are no good! They're too pointy! Kids won't—they'll scare kids" and all this stuff. [Biz laughs.] And I thought—
"They're depressing!" [Laughs.] [Todd laughs.]
Yeah! I thought, "You know what? Screw this. I'm self-publishing this mofo because obviously this person doesn't have a clue what they're talking about." And I've had nothing but positive feedback about the illustrations, so. So take that, publisher!
Yeah! Take that, publisher! That's right! No, I actually really… I actually really like that the skin colors are so bright and different from each other and I like the pointy—I mean— [Todd laughs.] —we could get really deep about all that I would love to read into this that may or may not have been there. But yes. They were wrong. Good job following your instincts!
Well, thank you!
Yeah! How did you decide what aspects to include and I ask this because the page that caught me kind of off-guard—though it shouldn't have?—was the—and maybe you'll be surprised at this one. Maybe it's not the one you'll think I'm gonna say. But—
I'm curious!
"So daddy's doctor said he needed to take medicine. Just like I did to help make my tummy ache go away." And I take medicine.
I know. I know! It's the best. No, I'm like, "Yes! I'm so happy to have you back in my life and one day I won't need you in my life and then maybe I'll need you again in my life." But—
[Through laughter] Exactly!
But my husband, every day, puts—he's in charge of breakfast and he'll put out like the kids' vitamin gummies in front of their breakfast? And then he puts out my little dish? [Todd laughs.] With my little pill? And—
Antidepressants should be gummy.
I know. They should. But they—like, it's been something—the moment that they came into the house I realized it was something I wanted them—I mean, my kids are the kind of kids that are like, "What is that? Why? I'm gonna need a full explanation and I'm gonna come back to this many times and ask you." Talk to me about what you chose to really emphasize in the book.
Right. So I wrote the manuscript and I sent it off to quite a few psychologists, psychiatrists. Counselors and whatnot. To get their opinion on it. And a couple of them are very holistic kind of psychologists? And they kind of pooh-poohed the medication part and they're like, "Y'know, you should put in there yoga and all this other stuff" and I'm like—
Todd: "Well, yeah, okay. But." [Through laughter] Yeah. Biz: If you can't get up to do yoga, it's hard to do yoga.
I mean, that's the thing. Yoga is very helpful. So is running five miles. But if I don't wanna leave my house? It's not gonna happen! Right.
Exactly. And so I really… that page did—I went back and forth on it a bit. And then I thought, you know what? I've heard the term "pill-shaming" and I thought, you know what? Hell with it. I take pills. It's a realistic view of what depression and anxiety is. If I'm comparing depression and anxiety to a physical ailment, then of course there's medicine sometimes and it's not a big goddamn deal that I take a pill every morning so that I can function at my highest efficiency. So I thought, "Hell with it. I'm putting it in there." And plus it was one of my favorite illustrations of the kid and the father in the bathroom and he's brushing his teeth and the dad's taking his pills. So I thought, "Well, I want that illustration in there—"
Todd: "So that's just even more reason." Biz: Well, they both have their—
They have their bunny slippers on. They both have their bunny slippers on— [Todd laughs.]
Todd: They do! Yeah. Biz: Which is so nice. Yeah.
I'm really proud of that—I'm actually—I'm proud that I put it in there, actually.
Biz: Good! Yeah! Todd: That page. Yeah.
I am—it was very helpful. To me. To see it. Did you—was there anything—what about—I mean, you—that's one thing. But then there are some other images that are scary, right? Like a daddy wrapped up in a blanket on the couch… where, like, the shadows look just almost like ribs. [Todd laughs.] That is—it's—I mean, it's a rough image to see. It's hard to see it and it not be scary. Either as an adult who, y'know, it's part of the things I think we all work on in therapy is what does my kid see when they see this? Or, y'know…
Right. It's not too scary, right?
Biz: No! No, no. I—it's not—well, again, I'm looking out the window. Todd: Oh, okay. Good. 'K, good. [Laughs.]
No, but I mean, it's sad! I mean, like you're saying, it is definitely an image of "One time daddy got so sad he had to stay in the hospital." And again, I mean, it's showing you, I think… an illustration of what that depth of depression looks like. Right? Like, it captures a feeling. And…
Definitely. Yeah.
Yeah! And I guess besides just the pill one, talk to me about some of the other things that you were like, "I really wanna show this." I mean, I love all the—and by the way, listeners, these are all coupled with these really, like, healthy, happy images as well. When daddy is up! When daddy is regulated and feeling good and not having depression. 'Cause I think there's a stereotype that with depression you're one note the whole time and that's not true. There're lots of times when we're healthy and happy and balanced. And… that is portrayed here showing all of the very strong, good, fun times that the son and father are having together.
Right. So I basically just… used my own experiences with my children and depression and so I wanted—I wanted it to be not too scary. Not too gloomy and dark, but also not too fluffy and light so that, y'know, there's real expectations of this is what actually depression looks like. So it was really hard walking that line. That fine balance of not making it fluffy but also making the expectations real but not making it too dark. 'Cause it's a kid's book. And I like to think I did that, but— [Biz laughs.] —I also like— [Laughs.] But also like when he's visiting his grandma—
Oh, I loved that one!
—when daddy's in the hospital—like, my kids did that kind of thing. Grandma came and visited and helped my family while I was—at times when I was in bed for a week. And stuff like that. So, y'know, they have a nice fun time with grandma but daddy's just resting. And so I basically just used my own experiences and I—what I really wanted to portray was that even though daddy's in the hospital or daddy's feeling sad, there is—the rest of the family's got life happening and things. We have daddy in mind. We're hoping for the best. We take care of him. We let him do his thing and rest. He takes his medicine. Sometimes he has a good day and we all go out and play in the park! Sometimes he needs to go to the hospital and then we go to grandma's house for a while. Y'know? So I basically just used my own experiences and tried to not make it too light and fluffy but not too dark and gloomy either, so.
Yeah. But it's—it is the act of living with people. I mean, I think there is a notion that… I don't know. It's the notion of, "Whatever's happening behind closed doors or pulled window curtains, y'know, it's probably just like it is on TV." Right? Like, y'know, we… we know that depression and anxiety are just two of many, many things that people struggle with and have. And yet still have families, partners, kids, y'know. Jobs. All this stuff. And it's very hard to, I think, for sometimes people to put those two worlds together? And I really liked seeing how the family was stepping in to support the father? And I mean that made me—I was like, "This is how that works!" Right? Like, this is what that looks like. And so I… it normalizes—
Good word!
Biz: Thank you. I love—I will normalize everything! Todd: I use that all the time. [Laughs.]
We gotta normalize so much we're like told to like not talk about. Like I was Southern and Catholic raised. Y'know. There are a million things that are supposed to be secret! [Todd laughs.] Alright. Talking about depression can feel depressing. So! [Laughs.] What do you think—except on this show. Clearly, we're having a great time talking about it.
What do you think is important in terms of talking about it within the family and to those outside the family and like what are good ways to get those conversations, y'know, started? I think I saw somewhere that you'd said you hadn't—you guys hadn't done a lot of talking before you wrote the book or, y'know, when—your kids and you were like, "Oh, we could've probably had this conversation earlier." [Todd laughs.] Y'know, like all of us! It is one of eight million things in my life. I'm like, "I shoulda had that conversation earlier." Right. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Uh, yeah. I—like, we were good with talking about the kids but it was like in the middle of it happening. Where I kinda wish we had—like, 'cause I already knew I had anxiety and depression all my life where I wish I kinda had the conversation before it happened so it wasn't so scary or confusing when they saw it and was like, "Oh, okay. This is what dad was talking about six months ago" or whatever. So I think a good way to get that conversation going in the family is [salesman voice] to buy this book and read it out loud to your kids! [Biz laughs.]
Ya welcome! I just set you up! [Laughs.]
No, but— [Laughs.] But seriously, I've done a lot of mental health advocating before the book came out, and actually I was doing it before I even got sober. And—well actually, that's a whole other story. But. [Laughs.]
[Laughs.] That's a whole 'nother children's book. [Laughs.]
[Through laughter] Yeah. Y'know, I would petition the government and I would protest in front of the legislative building and all this stuff and I kinda got thinking that, y'know, well, I can blame the government and I can blame all these things for not having enough funding, but if people who are having these issues aren't gonna talk about it themselves or talk about it with their own family, then of course governments aren't gonna listen. It's not gonna get funded until people do come out and actually talk about it. Like, I don't know if that made any sense, but like. So now, I'm—instead of thinking big picture, I'm thinking smaller picture. Talk to your kids about why you never see your uncle or, y'know, that secret why grandpa is the way he is or grandma is the way is or mom is the way she is. Talk about it so then, like, the good word you used—normalize it!—so then people that do provide the funding for these kinds of things, they realize that it is a bigger problem than they think because no one's talking about it. So. [Laughs.]
Right. Yeah. I think it's—why I think it's so important that we talk about it is it affects so many people, and then people can feel isolated in a family dynamic in which it's happening without feeling like they can ask for support. Because it is—things we don't like to talk about: parents suffering from mental illness, or kids. Right? Like, it's—everybody has the potential— [Laughs.] [Todd laughs.] —to go through periods of their life where it—y'know, it could be to a more minor degree or it could be more clinical. And I think yeah. I'm with you! [Singing] Let's talk about it! [Regular voice] And what is great—is—I will say, your book is really a good way to start talking about it. [Todd laughs.]
Biz: Which is why we will— Todd: Right?! [Laughs.]
It is! You did a good job! We will link everybody up to where they can get a copy of that book.
Oh, great!
Yeah. Todd, thank you so much for joining us and sharing all this with us. I love a good share, man. Thank you.
It was my pleasure. It's been a treat. [Laughs.] [Biz laughs.]
Alright. Well, good luck with the book and we will talk to you later! Bye!
Great! Thank you. Bye-bye.
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Genius fail time, Theresa. I'm not even gonna sing because I'm so used to having you here now.
Theresa: Oh yeah. This is so normal. Everything about this is normal. Biz: I'm so used. It's— [Laughs.]
Hey, guys. Didn't we say when this whole thing started that everything was gonna be super normal throughout this? It's normal.
Every day I wake up and I'm like, "God. I feel really normal." [Biz laughs.] "I'm feeling normal. Let's have a normal day."
Yeah. Gonna put on my normal pants. Have a little normal drink. Y'know. Do my normal screaming in the shower. A little normal crying. [Theresa laughs.]
Mm-hm.
Normal!
With that said, genius me!
[Dramatic, swelling music in background.] Biz: Wow! Oh my God! Oh my God! I saw what you did! Oh my God! I'm paying attention! Wow! You, mom, are a genius. Oh my God, that's fucking genius! [Biz and Theresa repeatedly affirm each other as they discuss their respective genius moments of the week.]
Okay. My real genius is that I voted. [Biz laughs and sings.] So that's great. But that's not a story. So I'll just really quickly say another genius—
Yeah?
Which is that with none of my actual doing, somehow, y'know, we're a few days from—actually, we're a day out—as of this recording, we're a day out from Halloween. Tomorrow's Halloween. And my kids have fallen into this very… relaxed… position of not needing elaborate costumes this year. Like there's so much buildup; there's all this talk; everybody's got big ideas and they're changing their ideas a lot and it's very stressful and overwhelming for someone who's very not-crafty like me. [Biz laughs.] But somehow, like, I was just saying to you before we went on the air, I have one kid who's gonna like put on a animal hat. One kid who wants to wear all black and be a shadow. [Biz laughs.] And one kid who is gonna be totally happy to just pull something out of the costume bin and maybe several—make several changes throughout the day, which is fine, 'cause we'll just be home anyway. And I'm really pleased with that situation. So that feels really great, going into tomorrow.
That is great! Good job!
Yeah! Thank you!
Good job just breaking everybody down. [Laughs.]
Theresa: Yeah! Yeah! I think that must be it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Biz: That must be it. That's it. That's it.
Okay. Everybody remembers last week my fail was having committed to too-elaborate of a costume for both children. Yes. Again. This will be after Halloween when you hear this. But it is the day before Halloween. I am—there is literally a hot glue gun—thank goodness Theresa brought me those extra glue sticks that Jesse accidentally bought so long ago now. [Theresa laughs.] I am still hot-gluing costumes together, but the genius is—maybe three days ago, I was really trying to make the boots— [Laughs.] For Katy Belle—now "Cat"—costume—and I was gonna put fabric. I made 'em out of foam and I was—foam doesn't look right. I'm gonna make it—I'm gonna cover it with material. And this was getting really frustrated. And I had convinced myself that I couldn't spray-paint this particular type of foam because it was gonna like eat it up and rot it away? Then I took some spare foam, and I always have spray paint around the house, and I went outside and I did a little test-y-poo and it worked fine. So I went to the hardware store where they had ballet-slipper-pink spray paint. Well two cans instead of one for the inevitable run-out. And then I spray-painted those bad boys and they are okay. You know what I mean? Like, they are okay! And they are okay enough.
Yeah! That's what we're shooting for. Yeah.
Right! And the genius really is—I stood back from the perfection cliff and it turns out that was okay!
That is so good.
There's a lot of good in there. Good job.
There's a lot of—a lot of good.
Yeah. Good job.
[Through laughter] Thank you.
[Answering machine beeps.] Hey, One Bad Mother. I am calling with a genius. [Biz laughs.] Not only am I well-caffeinated this morning, but I have been reflecting on this last week of having school started and the regularity of our routines coming back—I mean, in a very weird and strange way, but we have some routines. My kid gets home from school just after three o'clock. My genius is that now I make some smoothies right away. I throw in a couple of frozen things, a couple of protein things. They love it. And then they don't ask me for snacks until dinner. So I get like… an hour and a half of no one asking me for more food. [Biz laughs.] It's literally the best. And I just—I feel like a genius. That's all. Thanks for the show, guys.
You are a genius.
Yeah! That's really great!
Yeah. The problem that was solved here was getting an hour and a half of no one asking you for food! I… just wish I had… the, like, energy to make smoothies. And look, guys. I know smoothies are very easy to make. But like, I don't know. It's on my boundary list.
Not as easy as passing someone a granola bar. [Biz laughs.]
You mean throwing it across the room? Go team!
Yeah. Or telling somebody to go get their own granola bar.
Yeah. Oh, there's nothing easier. [Laughs.] Than that. [Theresa laughs.] So I think this is genius. And… I mentioned at the beginning of the show, Theresa, how somehow remote learning has seemed to fuel Ellis's need for snacks?
Biz: Like… like, it's—the moment the screen turns on, it's like, "Can I have a snack? I'm hungry. Can I have a snack?" So many snacks! Theresa: Yeah. Oscar, too. He's—it's the same. Oh, yeah. He needs so many snacks.
He needs—Oscar—he's a bottomless pit of snacks. The whole time he's on the screen. Yep.
I know! I—[makes frustrated noise.]
It's amazing.
If I could rally the strength to make a fucking smoothie to give this kid in the morning, maybe they'd make it.
And I'm so curious about the science of this. Like, is it that your kids see you—is it that your kids see you making the smoothie and it feels momentous and special and so then it's like, it feels like they've really been fulfilled? Or is it like 'cause they sip it and it takes a while to sip it and it lasts a long time? Or is it like the fullness?
Is it that they're pumped full of like peanut butter and protein powder? That could be it.
Yeah! Like what is it about this that works? But I can see it working. I can see it working and that's really great.
I think you're doing an amazing job. Failures!
[Dramatic orchestral music plays in the background.] Theresa: [In a voice akin to the Wicked Witch of the West] Fail. Fail. Fail. FAIL! [Timpani with foot pedal engaged for humorous effect.] Biz: [Calmly] You suck! [Biz and Theresa repeatedly affirm each other as they discuss their respective failures of the week.]
Fail me, Theresa.
Okay! This is just a classic Halloween fail for you. We went ahead and got the pumpkins and we carved them way too early. And… we didn't put candles in them because of—I guess—fire danger? 'Cause there's a lot of fires right now? And so we had like the little flicker lights in there or whatever? And I don't know if the fire has anything to do with it, but for whatever reason—the fire or the lack thereof—for whatever reason the jack-o'-lanterns rotted instantly. I mean, in like 24 hours—well, in 24 hours it was mold. Like, moldy—visibly moldy, disgusting, terrifying—and I tried to like get in there with matches and trying to like kind of burn it and like see if that would— [Biz laughs.] —I don't know what I was thinking. And I think I may have made it worse 'cause by the next day they were so rotten that I couldn't even pick them up to get them to the trash. I had to like scoop them off the cement and like hose things down and it was gnarly. And literally this was 48 hours after we carved them, which was like 10 days before Halloween. So yeah! That was a real—real bummer. Real failure.
That's a bummer. Well, you're doing a horrible job celebrating and having fun.
It is true. Again, this is sort of a prediction fail. That I know will happen. When you are listening to this show, as—again, I mentioned at the beginning—the election will have taken place. And my fail is that I know—despite my best sense—I'm going to watch the coverage. And it's gonna make me mad and—
I'm already watching.
Biz: I know! Oh! Yes! Can't look away! Can't not look! Theresa: I can't… yeah. Can't not. Can't not watch. Yep.
Like… I know—yeah. Basically I am failing at respecting my boundaries to stay sane and not furious. So… so that… let's all look forward to that. [Theresa laughs.] Fail.
To the additional mental health load that you're taking on for yourself.
Yes! Yes.
At a really great time to be doing that.
At a really good time to do it. Yeah. This is—'cause everything's normal.
[Through laughter] Yeah. [Biz laughs.]
[Answering machine beeps.] Hi. I'm calling with a fail. Today I ran over my toddler's lunchbox while leaving the childcare parking lot. I know exactly how it happened. Usually I put the lunchbox in the car and then I put her in the car, but today I put the lunchbox on the ground and then I put her in the car and then I just forgot that a lunchbox was even a thing. Like, that it even exists. [Biz laughs.] And then I went around to my side of the car and started to pull out. And it's funny because… [Biz laughs.] Y'know, you go over this huge thing and you're like, "Huh, what's that? What just happened?" [Theresa laughs.] And it took a couple seconds to realize… oh, it was a lunchbox. And I just ran over. It was in full sight of like a dozen families and cars, so that feels really good.
Wow. This—I am surprised. This is one of the first failures we've gotten in which the lunchbox was run over. As far as I can remember. Like—
It almost happened to me one time. I came very close. Somebody yelled and waved at me when I was about to roll over my kid's stuff. And I got out and I was like, "Oh yeah. This." And it was that same thing! Like I had just set it down instead of putting it in the car first and just forgot that it existed. Yeah.
Yeah. I've driven off and just left things on the side of the road? For sure? Where you're like, "I'll just put that there." And you—I always think about that when I'm walking through parking lots or like at a—y'know, when we used to go outside and you used to walk past things?
To places?
Yeah. To places.
Theresa: With stuff. Yeah. Biz: And you'll see, like—
Like a full, beautiful drink. Like a coffee. Like a nice coffee that's just… sitting on a car. And you think, "I bet—I now assume a parent left it." Right? Like I kind of peep in the car and I'm like, "Car seat. Oooh. That's bad. I'm so sorry."
Yep. That person needs their coffee more than the average person and yet they're more likely to forget their coffee.
I… think that is the case. Well, you're doing a horrible job of taking care of a lunchbox. [Theresa laughs.] I will say it's better to go that way than the inevitable "my lunchbox is lost forever." Because I hate replacing lunchboxes and water bottles. Maybe I'll just start putting them under the car. [Theresa laughs.] And rolling over them. Maybe that'll just make me feel better. [Laughs.] Well, you're doing awful! Awful, awful with lunchboxes! Somebody, don't let that family have lunchboxes anymore!
"Mom Song" by Adira Amram. Mellow piano music with lyrics. You are the greatest mom I've ever known. I love you, I love you. When I have a problem, I call you on the phone. I love you, I love you. [Music fades out.]
[Singing] Boop boop boop boo boo! Da-da, duh duh dat dat! Jumbotron! [Regular voice] We have a Jumbotron! Everybody listen up!
Inspirational music plays in background.
I'm very excited about this. Stuck in Stoneybrook is a podcast about The Baby-Sitters Club books. [Biz laughs.] As kids, the hosts were BSC obsessives; as adults, they're re-reading the series through their professions—a pop culture writer, a feminist theorist, and an adolescent psychologist. From Reagan-era politics and mean girl behavior to '80s heartthrobs and junk food, Stuck in Stoneybrook gives fun, funny, and informed insights into the books that you just couldn't see as a kid. So to go StuckInStoneybrook.com to learn more.
Search for Stuck in Stoneybrook wherever you get your podcasts! Hot dog! I got something to listen to tonight while I puzzle. [Music fades out.]
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I honestly love KiwiCo and speak about it often on the show and recommend it to people often out in the world. Because… the projects that they send are super fun and appropriate for all different ages! From Kiwi Crates—which are for younger kids—all the way up to the Maker Crates that I openly have admitted to stealing from my oldest child and making myself! [Theresa laughs.] This house is full of macrame right now. Thanks to Kiwi Maker kits. Also, with the holidays coming up, I think we're all still gonna be at home. So Kiwi Crate makes a great gift.
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Music: Ethereal, sustained bells. Benjamin Partridge: The Beef and Dairy Network is a multi–award-winning comedy podcast here on Maximum Fun. And I would recommend you listen to it. But don't just take it from me. What do the listeners have to say? [Two internal phone signals.] Speaker 1: I would rather stick a corkscrew inside my ear, twist it around, and pull out my ear canal like a cork, than listen to your stupid podcast ever again. Please stop contacting me. Speaker 2: Hell would freeze over before I recommended this podcast, The Beef and Dairy Network, to anyone. Speaker 3: Not in a million years. Actually, scratch that. Um, make it a billion years. No, how long's infinity? Benjamin: That's The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast, available at MaximumFun.org and at all good, and some bad, podcast platforms. Speaker 1: Disgusting. [Music stops.]
[Radio interference followed by laidback music with a snare drum beat. A phone rings as the DJ speaks.] Radio DJ: Welcome back to Fireside Chat on KMAX. With me in-studio to take your calls is the dopest duo on the West Coast, Oliver Wang and Morgan Rhodes. [Click.] Go ahead, caller. Caller: Hey. Uh, I'm looking for a music podcast that's insightful and thoughtful, but like, also helps me discover artists and albums that I've never heard of. Morgan Rhodes: Yeah, man. Sounds like you need to listen to Heat Rocks. Every week, myself—and I'm Morgan Rhodes—and my co-host here, Oliver Wang, talk to influential guests about a canonical album that has changed their lives. Oliver Wang: Guests like Moby, Open Mike Eagle, talk about albums by Prince, Joni Mitchell, and so much more. Caller: Yooo! What's that show called again? Morgan: Heat Rocks. Deep dives into hot records. Oliver: Every Thursday on Maximum Fun. [Music suddenly gives way to static and a dial tone.]
Well, here we are. It's been a week. Let's all… sit down, relax, and snuggle up close to Theresa. And listen to a mom have a breakdown.
[Answering machine beeps.] This is a mom having a breakdown. I'm a stay-at-home mom, first-time mom to a awesome nine-month-old little girl. Military spouse. And I've been living in Japan for almost three years. And I am exhausted. My husband's schedule changed. He's working nights and sleeping during the day. I have zero support. I have no one to talk to. I just needed to tell someone that. Thanks for the show. Bye.
You're doing a good job.
Yeah, you are.
That's really hard. That's like… incredibly difficult. In case it was missed, she was saying that she has zero support there, which is a real reality when you are based overseas in a place where you don't have family. So many military families have to deal with this, yet that does not take away the isolating sting of each individual set of circumstances?
I also think when you're that far away from your support system, just the fact of the time difference being so different? Like I know I felt far away from my family when I was just on one coast and they were on the other coast and they were three hours different in their day. It just felt like we were living different lives because we were having a different kind of day. And when you're on the other side of the world, that's really different. You're living out the day-to-day stuff just on a different schedule from everybody who you're close to.
Yeah. And a nine-month-old? Congratulations! Also! It's so much! [Laughs.]
Yeah! Yes.
It's… a lot. For… for you! I mean, yes! Maybe trying to figure out things in the world. It's a lot. But for you, this is a whole new—a whole new thing. A whole new experience. Every episode we talk about how much it caught us off-guard how hard that transition would be. And it is a transition. And it is isolating, even in the best of circumstance. And you're remarkable and we usually don't push, like, some things? But One Bad Mother has a sub-group for everything on Facebook, and I know that there is a sub-group for military families and I know there's a sub-group for like expats who are in different places. So… as a way to just support you, y'know, you can check that out by going to the main One Bad Mother private Facebook group and in the documents there is a list of every single sub-group that's out there. And how to access it. And I say that to everybody! Guys, we are not alone? We feel very alone. We are not alone. There is a community out there to support you and listen to you and… allow rants and no judgment and just general support. So I hope you will just—it's just—it's like listening to One Bad Mother? But in a more, like, weird, like, y'know, kind of group way. It's like a group watch! It's like a group watch. Like—
You can also—you can also always post whatever you're going through in the main group and people will come to you. And say… [Biz laughs.] "Here's the sub-groups that you need." It's that kind of community.
You're not alone. And also—Hotline always here! Hotline is always here for the calling and the talking. You're doing a remarkable job under incredibly difficult circumstances and we see you? And hear you. And… you're doing a great job! Theresa? You're also doing a great job. I am… still… thrilled every time I get to see you. I always wish we could spiral off into all kind of—I mean, we could do a whole show on snacking in front of remote learning screens. A whole show!
Maybe someday we will.
Maybe someday we will. Don't worry—I'm keeping a list! [Both laugh.]
Thanks, Biz. You are also doing a very good job.
Thank you. I'll talk to you later!
Okay. Bye!
Bye. Oh, I do love talking to Theresa and just people in general and now I'm going to ask the very important question—what did we learn today? Well, we learned that not only is everything "normal" right now, it is also important that we normalize many things that people experience. I actually don't wanna normalize the coronavirus? [Laughs.] 'Cause none of this is fucking normal and I don't want to live in that normal yet? But mental health? [Singing] Normal! Having depression? Normal! Having, y'know, kids in your house? Normalll! [Regular voice] And I say that because, y'know, this whole idea of "I have to work! Where am I gonna put the kids?!" Well, they're probably gonna wander through at some point in time. Because children are normal. So many things that we have touched on on this show over the years, the biggest takeaway has just been—guys? It's probably more normal than you think. And the more we talk about these things without judgment and with an open mind, the better it's going to be for not only us, but for our kids and our community. So good job, Todd, for writing that book! And good job for everybody who is out there talking about mental health awareness! Woo wooo! I appreciate you. Everybody? You're doing a remarkable job. It is no joke that this pandemic is taking its toll on our mental health. I had therapy today and was talking about one thing very specifically, and then I just like casually brought up a few other things that had happened in the last two weeks? My therapist was like, "What?! Wait—what? Wait… what? Wow. No wonder you're tired." [Laughs.] It was like, "I am! I'm really emotionally very tired! This is a lot of heavy lifting!" And you're all heavy lifting, too. Like, even the most mentally healthy person in the world—it is weirder if you are not feeling a little drained right now. Okay? And, you know what? We just got through an election. You guys did it. We all did it. We survived. We survived Halloween. Ya did it. We probably are not surviving daylight savings. Not even like a little bit because that always just fucks up everything when it comes to sleep in our house, and you all are doing a good job! Look at us! Day by day! I shoulda said [singing] Day by dayyyy! [Regular voice] And break out into a musical. We're doing it. I see you. You're doing a good job. Yes! The holidays are coming! Yes. They are there. But we don't have to think about that right now. You're all doing a good job. Go find your secret stash of candy that you already stole from the children. Cuddle up and give yourself a break. You're all doing a good job and I will talk to you next week. Bye!
"Mama Blues" by Cornbread Ted and the Butterbeans. Strumming acoustic guitar with harmonica and lyrics. _I got the lowdown momma blues_ Got the lowdown momma blues Gots the lowdown momma blues The lowdown momma blues Gots the lowdown momma blues Got the lowdown momma blues You know that's right [Music fades somewhat, plays in background of dialogue.]
We'd like to thank MaxFun; our producer, Gabe Mara; our husbands, Stefan Lawrence and Jesse Thorn; our perfect children, who provide us with inspiration to say all these horrible things; and of course, you, our listeners. To find out more about the songs you heard on today's podcast and more about the show, please go to MaximumFun.org/onebadmother. For information about live shows, our book and press, please check out OneBadMotherPodcast.com.
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"An exhibition of stimulating and thoughtful performance based artwork exploring how the rivers of York have shaped the city. Through a process of performance research, Beth explores environmental issues and human-nature relationships. This new body of work considers how York's rivers have been important to the heritage, industrial development and leisure activities of the city as well as examining the wildlife and wider ecology of the Ouse and its tributaries. The exhibition showcases images, film and objects created through performance research, as well as live performance each Saturday afternoon of the Open Studios. There will also be an opportunity to learn about water ecology and take part in a pond dipping family activity at the St Nicks Environment Centre." – YOS Directory 2016
This year I was chosen as the York Open Studios Bursary Artist. I presented works in progress from my new project, Confluence, which examines the many facets of York's rivers. The work was shown at St Nicks Environment Centre and included pieces inspired by my conversations with environmental researchers at York University.
A map of the streams of research that informed work shown at YOS as well as those I have yet to explore.
The exhibition consisted of images from my research so far, film of a performance responding to my conversations with scientists at York uni and of the river in flood and performances in which I made flood drawings with ink and river water.
The films were projected onto a screen made from cotton dyed by capillary action which was reminiscent of flood damaged curtains. The images were hung in ways which did not damage the space (existing nails/screws, or from banisters or artificial walls etc), and grouped in ways which I hoped would elicit questions, comments and discussion from visitors.
The flood drawings were performed each weekend, two at St Nicks and one by the River Ouse. I wet the paper with river water poured from a watering can before mapping the watercourses, towns, green spaces and pollution upstream of York in different coloured inks, applied with a pipette from a test tube. The inks were carried by the water and wet paper, forming marks and pools where the paper had buckled, distorting the map and creating 'floodplains' from the original line. These drawings were then allowed to dry over the course of the weekend; as the water evaporated new marks and lines emerged. The changes were documented in photographs. The changing drawings sparked a lot of interest and I was able to have some very in-depth conversations with visitors about their experiences of flooding and the rivers and also the issues about emerging contaminants and natural flood defences that I had researched. The mix of nature reserve audience and art audience also proved interesting, there were visitors of all ages and backgrounds some who wanted to talk about the issues and concepts explored in the work and others who wanted to discuss the materiality and process of the work.

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Get the new L'Osteria song by Armando Quattrone!
A song about friendship, love and joie-de-vivre – everything that L'Osteria stands for: Armando Quattrone, the successful Italian newcomer in Germany, has dedicated his latest song to L'Osteria! The singer-songwriter also produced the video to the song in our restaurant. We think this homage to Bella Italia is well worth a look and a listen. The best of the best: you can get the L'Osteria song exclusively on our website as a free download!
Armando Quattrone scored a huge hit in 2015 with his song 'Positivo' in the Aperol-Spritz advert. It is hardly surprising. His music is a great blend of Italian pop, reggae and tarantella – it puts you in a good mood, brings out that holiday feeling and beckons you onto the dance floor. In other words: it fits in perfectly with the happy, lively atmosphere at L'Osteria.
So it was logical to capture this unique voice in a song and to share it with our guests and friends in the form of a music video.The musicians and L'Osteria also share a long-standing friendship – Armando Quattrone and his band have already been to many L'Osteria launches, creating a great atmosphere playing their hits live. When one evening we had the joint idea of creating a L'Osteria song, the singer-songwriter was immediately fired up. 'L'Osteria is my second home. It was naturally a pleasure for me to write the official L'Osteria song,' said Armando Quattrone.
It didn't take long for L'Osteria song to take shape. The musicians even came to L'Osteria in Elisabethstraße, Munich to produce the music video, despite their tour across Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and England running in parallel. The video to the song evolved over two days of shooting with running production and with the help of many spontaneous contributors. Armando Quattrone is also very happy with the result: 'We had immense fun! The lyrics are about celebrating with friends and family – and we did just that.'
Why are we giving away this great catchy tune? As a little thank you to our long-standing guests and friends at our restaurant. You are the best!
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The L'Osteria end of year review for 2016
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Artistic Director at StudioArTe Carapostol
"Penelope is an intellectual contemplative who observes - with noble calmness - the furious overlap of trends and time. In securing the validity of an original visual language, her art is recognizable and stylistically consistent."
Beppe Palomba
Presidente Accademia della Bussola
"Affirmation of Penelope's talent, commitment and capacity is certainly well deserved. Her visionary works can project creativity beyond the ordinary, in the world of dream and fantasy."
Kate Cherry
Executive Director
Meridian Museum of Art, Mississippi USA
"Penelope's work is filled with energy that comes from within. You feel a spirit has descended and has controlled her hand and thought. Her work possesses significance through the use of colour, form and movement. Each piece stands on its' own and has a presence of importance."
Giovanni Smedili
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Association Roberta Smedili
"Penelope Oakley is a typical example of an artist that demonstrates how art can be experienced through various forms. I have known her by chance on the internet, connecting through an international artists network and since then she has become a leader in events that Association Roberta Smedili carries out for Unicef. Penelope is an eclectic artist and lover of her graphic discoveries that she is able to transfer on many different surfaces. In this way her visions become artworks, able to give to those who admire them a sense of old and new at the same time.
What are we looking at?
An alien who came to meet us from far away or a medieval warrior dressed up with his bright armour?
A woman from the future or a statue from an old time?
The portrayed character is freed from its outer shell and shares with the curious and fascinated observer all the inner strength he has, flying together towards what could be a daydream.
All the Artworks are wonderfully embellished with gold and silver colours, strobe lights and transparancies that surprise the spectator, and they make him a witness of what could be the future in a future not so far away."


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Randy Sa'd has worked as a Management Consultant since beginning his career, spending time with both multi-national and boutique firms. In 2007, Randy started his own consultancy and has successfully completed projects for a range of corporate and non-profit clients. More recently, Randy has developed a highly integrated relationship with Harbourfront Centre that involves him leading an innovative sustainability program on behalf of the organization.
Through his work at Harbourfront Centre, Randy founded REFOCUS, a ground-breaking educational program and social enterprise, designed to enable organizations to develop sustainability programs that can actually strengthen the bottom line. Based on this model, he is also coordinating the development and implementation of a campus-wide sustainability program at Ryerson University.
Randy graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Rotman School of Management where for seven years he acted as Chair of the Alumni Association.
Joel Hilchey teaches sustainability at McMaster University, and he speaks at events across North America about leadership, success, and what holds people back. You'll probably remember him as the speaker who plays with mousetraps, but his real skill is helping people change the world.
As a leadership expert, Joel is an author, educator, and the founder of the Beanstalk Project – a youth leadership development company. In the professional world, Joel is often hired as a keynote speaker on topics of personal leadership, learning, success, and creativity. Within education specifically, Joel helps students and teachers build creative, caring, successful communities.
With a master's degree in environmental engineering, Joel is an experienced problem solver, but his career has been primarily as an educator, and he's known for his hilarious, interactive, and memorable presentations. He has been instrumental in redesigning three courses at McMaster, a training program and guidebook to help organizations develop sustainability programs, and many other seminars and presentations on creativity and leadership. He continues to be an in-demand educational consultant.
You can find his illustrated book, The Time to Climb, watch his TEDx Talk, The Rise of Entitlementality, get his monthly article, and learn more at www.joelhilchey.com.
Pavel Graymason has served as Sustainability Coordinator for the University of Toronto and before that as Sustainability Engagement Coordinator for York University. Pavel earned a Master of Environmental Studies from York University, class of 2007, with foci in Environmental Philosophy and Business and the Environment.
Much of Pavel's work in this field has comprised of communications and marketing responsibilities, inclusive of his efforts in support of REFOCUS. That is because the barrier to people further engaging with sustainability is rarely a simple lack of knowledge; rather, finding new and surprising ways to participate in actionable dialogue with communities and stakeholders has emerged as a core capacity of today's sustainability professional.
In 2013, Pavel received an Ontario Minister of the Environment's Award for Environmental Excellence, for a community driven energy conservation program he created on behalf of York University. He has also provided sustainability leadership training to undergraduates, coordinated volunteers in several capacities, chaired several boards and committees, and served on the board of directors for the Ontario University and College Sustainability Professionals (OCUSP).
Ian Garrett is a designer, producer, educator, and researcher in the field of sustainability in arts and culture. Ian is the co-founder and director of the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA), and is an Assistant Professor of Ecological Design for Performance at York University.
Ian's writing include the monograph Arts, the Environment, and Sustainability for the Americans for the Arts's New Community Visions Initiative; The Carbon Footprint of Theatrical Production, published in Readings in Performance and Ecology, and the paper Theatre is No Place for a Plant in Landing Stages from the Ashden Directory. He chaired the conferences Sustainability in Theatre and Staging Sustainability, 2014, and served as sustainability programme coordinator for World Stage Design in Cardiff, Wales. He has spoken on arts and the environment, at conferences hosted by St. Louis University, Brown University, Live Design International, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), DanceUSA, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Americans for the Arts, and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).


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Trump's wall met with skepticism, unease on US-Mexico border
Jan 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM Jan 26, 2017 at 8:11 AM
SAN DIEGO (AP) — As President Donald Trump announced his plans for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, Border Patrol agents in San Diego on the lookout for drugs and smugglers drove all-terrain vehicles along a barrier that reaches 18 feet, topped by razor wire and reinforced by cameras and lighting.
Mexicans shopped at an outlet mall that bumps up against the border. And dozens of migrants huddled in tents outside a shelter in Mexico hoping to get into the U.S. someday.
To them, Trump's executive order Wednesday to build a wall seemed more like a symbolic and worrisome gesture of a new chapter in U.S-Mexico relations than a real deterrent for people to enter the country illegally.
"Even if they build the wall, I will climb the wall. I bring a ladder the size of the wall, even from sticks or whatever, but I'll make it, and I'll jump over there," said José de Jesús Ramírez, a recently deported Mexican migrant whose wife and children are in the U.S.
Ramirez's response echoed the mood along the border that was a combination of resentment, defiance — and business as usual. A crew of laborers was actually building a fence on the border as Trump made his announcement. On a cold morning in the desert, the workers installed concrete blocks on which the 22-foot steel fence will stand between the town of Sunland Park, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. The project has been underway for several months.
In Tijuana, a high school student went to a stone monument dedicated by both countries in 1848 as a sign of the friendship between the U.S. and Mexico. The monument once stood on the border but now is in Mexico, a few feet away from a giant wall of towering steel bars that lead into the Pacific Ocean.
The student, 17-year-old Brandon Dzul, said talk of another wall stirred up painful memories of his 34-year-old uncle who died in the desert six years ago after being abandoned by smugglers.
"He just had the American dream, you know, to make a better life," he said. "I think now we aren't going to be able to get in even with a visa."
Nearby, about 150 people gathered in tents outside a 40-bed migrant shelter that has been overwhelmed since May, when large numbers of Haitians began stopping in the Mexican border city on their way to the United States. Many moved to Brazil after Haiti's 2010 earthquake and went north after jobs dried up in the South American country.
Haitians generally turn themselves in to U.S. inspectors at San Diego's San Ysidro port of entry, the nation's busiest crossing, making no attempt to jump the fence or evade authorities. They were released on humanitarian parole until September, when the U.S. ended special treatment for Haitians and began deporting them just as they do people from other countries.
U.S. authorities lack resources to process Haitians quickly enough, leading Mexican authorities to create a ticketing system that leaves them waiting in Tijuana for weeks. Migrant shelters are full, forcing many to sleep on the streets.
Fences and other barriers already blanket about 700 miles of border, much of it in California and Arizona. In San Diego, they helped to virtually shut down what was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in the 1990s. It's now one of the most fortified stretches of landscape on the 2,000-mile divide between the two countries.
Border Patrol sector chiefs were asked in November to identify areas where the fence could be expanded, though Trump and his advisers have yet to detail their next steps. Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council and a member of Trump's transition team, supports building a wall in strategic locations and reinforcing existing barriers in certain areas but not where there are natural obstacles, like the Rio Grande river in Texas.
"We do not need a Great Wall of China from California to Texas," Judd said in an interview last week.
Away from the border, Trump drew support from his base. Tammy Allen, a 52-year-old supporter from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, applauded Trump's interest in curbing the number of refugees coming to the U.S. and building a wall.
"A lot of countries do. Why not us? Something has got to be done," she said.
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What else are your technology systems for but to help people work together to get things done?
The digital environment is turning anthropology -- a field associated with the study of remote or ancient tribes, often with scant contact with the outside world -- as the ticket to one of the hottest roles today.
Gartner vice president for the CIO Research Group John Mahoney says an anthropologist understands how groups of people work together to get things done.
"One of the skills that effective digital organisations increasingly need is the skill to design a digital environment in ways people can use [effectively]," he says.
"Only a quarter of CIOs worldwide have the right capability in their IT organisation. This is bad news as capability will change further and faster in the next five years."
And this is where the digital anthropologist comes in, he says. "What else are your technology systems for but to help people work together to get things done?"
WATCH: Gartner's John Mahoney talks about working with a digital anthropologist.
A digital anthropologist can study how a community of individuals experience work, for example how the marketing and sales people work together.
Very few organisations today employ these roles. Some of them are organisations like Google, Amazon and Intel. "Apple has a campus full of them," he says.
In the case of Intel, he says, "they recognise that in the second half of the information age, their future viability as a company will be not in making faster chips. It will be in the ways those chips are used to help people run technology, and build their lives. It is the effect of technology rather than the technology itself."
"The answer is straightforward," says Mahoney. "Go to a local university with a department of anthropology," he says, and ask for students who can help you.
They can also be recruited from other social science departments -- fine arts, history and literature. Sometimes, he says, it is about deliberately recruiting people from a non-traditional background to answer these questions.
"Almost any undergraduate student now is completely enmeshed in the digital environment," he says.
HP executive Anneliese Olson says the concept of 'digital anthropologist' is not new.
When Olson joined HP worldwide research analyst over 15 years ago, this type of work was known as "ethnographic research".
"It is the same concept, watching, learning how people are working, what kinds of patterns they are following," says Olson, who is now vice president of computing solutions for HP in Asia Pacific and Japan.
Olson is still involved in similar work through HP's customer advisory councils, which assess designs for future or new HP products.
"We do that by bringing them to HP or go out into their environment," says Olson.
As to what is the best background for people doing work, Olson says they should have a foundation for understanding how to talk about someone's [work] ecosystems, discuss with them what they are doing and "really observing workflow".
They should also be able to do follow up interviews and have discussions with people about their "pain points" for instance, in using certain devices, says Olson.