Dream Weavers: Understanding How the Biology of Sleep Helps Seniors Control Disruptive Patterns

The Health Journal
August 2015, Editor's Pick

We’ve all had sleepless nights. You know the ones. You wake for no reason with your mind in overdrive, or you find yourself sleeping fewer hours and wonder why. Sleep deprivation develops to varying degrees throughout life, mostly during times of stress or illness, but the phenomenon happens more frequently with age. In turn, we experience increased concern over conditions associated with fatigue and failing memory, as well as a desire to optimize sleep in order to lead healthy, active senior lives.  

Ted Schubel: Talk of the Town

Front Porch Magazine
August 2015, pg. 8

Rarely does a person choose a career at a very young age and then follow through with it. From the time he was a kid with a radio glued to his hands, Ted Schubel has known he wanted to be on the air.  Though other interests came and went, radio remained a constant.  Schubel studied English and journalism in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  His first local gig was at a Christian radio station and later with B101.5, where Schubel has hosted Town Talk ever since the first episodes aired in 2003.  Focusing on local organizations, the arts, people of interest, and politicians, Schubel views Town Talk as a vehicle for weaving a tighter community through revelations of its commonalities and humanity.  

Neat Eats: Meal Planning Made Easy

Front Porch Magazine
August 2015, pg. 15

We’ve all done it.  Every year, we solemnly vow to be more health conscious, to feel better, to get more exercise, and to pay attention to what we’re putting into our bodies.  We know it’s the right thing to do, and we glow with pride as we extol our resolve to our friends.  Then the work of doing it sets in – the daily tracking of food, slogging to the gym at zero-dark-whatever, and the limits!  The limits to our easy-going, carefree, eat-whatever-the-hell-we-want lives.  Being healthy can feel like a real buzz-kill; however, there are those among us who have discovered a way to have it all.  People like Stefanie Root, a guru of gastronomy, who has found that healthy living not only enhances one’s experiences in life, but can be easier and less costly than the life we thought we relished.