Georgetown View Magazine/ January 2014

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a vIsIt From the Future | 32A look in the mirror inspires one woman to improve her health

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LeadIng thoughtFuLLy | 42SU’s President Burger talks education with the View

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a Legacy oF response | 11Local doctor follows his ancestors in service to others

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WhIspers oF WarFare, promIses oF peace | 16A treasure trove of history awaits at Southwestern

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mEG mORiNGedItor’s note

If I had to assign an icon to each of the months of the year, my icon for January would be a broom. As in “clean sweep.” Other people make resolutions in January—bye-bye, chocolate!—but I clean out my closets. And the pantry. And my file cabinets. I load boxes of stuff in my car to take to The Caring Place, and then I swing by Office Depot for a new paper shredder because, inevitably, my shredder doesn’t survive my cleaning rampage. Maybe my January icon should be a melted, smoking shredder?

Whatever your icon for January is, we hope you find inspiration for the new year in this issue. Pledging to lose weight or get fit? Then check out our main feature on a woman who lost 200 pounds. Got a chunky pet? In Animal View, read how a foster family helped an overweight yellow Lab with aching joints find his

spunk again. Find ideas for clean eating from Chef Nikki or from Kelly Richards (View from the Top). Start a business doing what you love, like this month’s Rising Star, Joseph Rothenberg, did, or follow the example of Dr. Richard Male (View from the Top) and give back to others this year. If you’re a mom seeking inspiration and advice, you’ll want to bookmark Musings for Moms, a new monthly column for mothers by Alicea Jones, former View editor-in-chief.

You can find all our articles online at our web site, gtownview.com, and you can share them with friends who need some oomph to launch their New Year’s resolutions.

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lines of parents pushing strollers or carrying little ones stretched beyond the parking lot of Pharr-San Juan High School.

Inside, Georgetown physician Dr. Richard Male, Chief Medical Of-ficer of the Austin Company for the Texas State Guard, prepared his team of soldiers to respond to the medical needs of those coming to Operation Lone Star, an annual joint-military event in the Valley.

Over the next week, Dr. Male’s team coordinated with other military and medical teams to treat thousands of patients hailing from six counties along the Rio Grande border, from Brownsville to Laredo. The team assisted patients with immunizations, pre-scriptions, and diagnoses, while at the same time optometrists and dentists offered their services in a trailer in the parking lot or in the gymnasium.

“I see [patients] and then send them to local social services, and

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Volunteering his time and expertise is a family tradition for Dr. Male. He joined the Texas State Guard Medical Brigade four years ago in order to serve fellow Texans and to follow his family’s heritage of military service.

“In every generation since the American Revolution, members of my family have served our coun-try in military forces,” Dr. Male says. “I felt compelled and some-what obligated to serve likewise, to carry on the family tradition of military service.”

a Legacy oF servIceDr. Male’s respect for his fam-

ily’s sacrifice is evident on the walls at his private practice in Georgetown, the Physicians’ Center P.A., where he displays medals, photos, and newspaper clippings featuring family military

heroes, some of whom served in both a military and medical fashion.

One such newspaper clipping honors his great-grandfather, who was a general doctor in rural west Texas in the early 1900s. He traveled with horse and buggy to provide medical care to neighbor-ing ranches, using very limited medical supplies.

“As a young boy, the repeated stories my father told me about my great-grandfather inspired me and sparked my interest [in] the potential of a future career in medicine,” Dr. Male said. “He was the only doctor in four counties. My great-grandfather was on a cattle drive with his brother up through west Texas [when] they had a smallpox epidemic in that community. [They] ended up set-tling there to care for people.”

Dr. Male completed medical school at University of North Tex-as Health Science Center (TCOM) in Fort Worth, the city where his great-grandfather graduated

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A lEGACY Of RESpONSE from page 11 from medical school, and opened his private practice, Physicians’ Center P.A., in 1992.

Every few years after opening the practice, he revisited the option to join the military, but the demands of a young family and growing practice kept him from serving. Twenty years later, when his children became teenagers and adults, he decided to join the Texas State Guard Medical Brigade in order utilize his medical skills for military purposes.

contInuIng the LegacyAs a member of the Texas State

Guard Medical Brigade, Dr. Male volun-teers his time during training exercises such as Operation Lone Star, an exer-cise that not only offers humanitarian aid but is also a joint-military training exercise for disaster situations such as hurricanes. The Texas National Guard Medical Brigade lists every action for which members train and drill on a Mission Essential Task list. According to Dr. Male, Operation Lone Star provides an opportunity for military brigades to practice for disasters because the situ-ation is so similar to that of an actual disaster, without threats of danger.

“We set up headquarters and use the military system structure through the whole process [of Operation Lone Star], just like that which would occur in a disaster situation,” Dr. Male explains. “For a training mission, it couldn’t get

any better.”He’s fortunate, he says, to have “a

very strong support team” of about twenty employees at his Georgetown practice, as well as patients who under-stand when he has to leave for military service. “Over the years I have had overwhelming support from my fam-ily, staff, and patients, who appreciate and remind me of the importance of my military service,” he said.

Such support was critical when Dr. Male was deployed during Hurricane Alex in 2010. The Army National Guard and State Guard set up points of distri-bution from Brownsville to Laredo, the same general location that Operation Lone Star serves. Dr. Male was on-call

with a medical team for medical emer-gencies.

One night, he and his team had to drive through heavy rain to treat a man suffering from hypertension issues. They also treated several soldiers with minor injuries throughout the week.

In addition to deploying during emer-gencies, Dr. Male also volunteers for military training and officer improve-ment every month.

“I think there’s a certain level of ser-vant-hood, and when you come along certain milestones in life, personally, I’d like to look back and see [that] my accomplishments and my efforts made a difference,” Dr. Male says. “That’s why I’m doing this.”

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during the American Revolution, an officer gives a patriot soldier fur-lough papers because he survived a scalping and can now return home. Around the drafty lean-to, light muskets (fusils) and early, well-crafted Pennsylvania flintlocks are neatly stacked. A pair of Prussian pistols taken from a dead Hessian lies atop a wooden box containing Dutch gin. A snub-nosed bronze grenade mortar sits just outside.

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Kiowa braves gather tomahawks, axes, and arrows after attacking a wagon train. Fire consumes a wrecked Conestoga, and an errant cinder threatens to light a huge family Bible but dies out. Wind soughs down the ravine as a wiz-ened medicine man chants rhyth-mically and shakes a buffalo-horn war club.

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manuscript from 1719 formalizes a land grant to native tribesmen in northern Massachusetts. The Treaty of Green-ville, 1795, outlines the first official accord between the new republic and natives. Flowing calligraphy penned by a young girl pays tribute to Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. In addition, there’s a copy of Sam Houston’s 1843 treaty with the Caddo tribe.

And there are ubiquitous powder horns, as indispensable in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life as keys and cell phones are today. Huge, curving supply horns, more than two feet long, were carried by infantry units. Individ-ual horns often showcased the owners’ creativity, scrimshawed (carved) with scenery, maps, details of battles, and names. One inscribed with “George Washington” also names the owner, almost certainly one of Washington’s troops during “Bloody ’77.” Another horn lays out a map of the Hudson River. Another came from the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto.

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Once the card creator has formed a question, it’s time to begin making the collage. Large images typically become collage backgrounds, with smaller im-ages overlapping and filling in the gaps.

After creators com-plete a card, they protect it inside a clear plastic sheath and file it with their ever-growing col-

lection of SoulCollage cards. Over time, regular SoulCol-lage participants will create a deck consisting of three transpersonal cards—The Source Card, The Soul Essence, and The Wit-ness—and myriad cards grouped in four suits: The Committee Suit (the psychologi-cal dimension), the Community Suit (the commu-nal dimension), The Companion Suit (the energetic dimension),

“Discover your wisdom,

change your world.”—SoulCollage® motto

Each collage takes the form of a 5-by-8-inch card and represents a single aspect of the self or soul, Sue explains. It also begins with a question about the card creator’s life.

“You might be wondering about the next step in your relation-ship, career, or life journey, [or about] how you can take better care of yourself or how to cope with your grief,” Sue says. “These are all good questions that your logical self may not know how to answer, but your inner, wise self can… Trust yourself and trust the process.”


iT’S iN THE CARdS from page 19 and The Council Suit (the spiritual dimension).

While each card represents a single facet of one’s self, a deck represents one’s entire being. The number of cards in a full deck will vary from person to person. To date, Sue is working with a stack of about forty completed cards, while other SoulCollage creators’ decks may hold from a single card to hun-dreds.

When creators do a reading—that is, interpret a card—they “always put your Source Card in the middle or on the table,” says Sue. “The Source Card represents your connection to The Di-vine or holiness, so the idea is that The Source is always present.”

Sue holds up one of the first SoulCol-lage cards she made: an image of a little girl holding brightly colored balloons. At her feet are two small dogs.

“When we make a card, sometimes we’ll name it,” explains Sue. “This is my creative one, from the Council Suit.”

Following SoulCollage guidelines, Sue proceeds to read her card using poetic “I am one who” statements:

“I am one who is cre-ative.

“I am one who loves bright colors.“I am one who likes to wear outra-

geous, bright colors.“I am one who loves her dogs and

loves to ride her bike.“I am one who thinks of how life

changes—it can be dark sometimes, but then we can go through changes and transformation and come out a beauti-ful butterfly.”

Having finished her reading, Sue explains that her guiding question had to do with how she could incorporate more creativity into her spiritual life. Her reading of the card led her to the following answer: To incorporate more creativity, she should look to the beauty of nature and to her two dogs.

“It can feel really awkward the first time you do it, but as you do it more and more, it gets more and

more comfortable,” Sue says. “You get comfortable with asking the questions, doing the readings, and journaling what you’ve learned. Over time, you’ll find more and more wisdom from the cards coming your way.”

Though Sue is an avid proponent of self-readings—she’s made a daily prac-tice of reading and recording findings from her own cards—she stresses that readings can be even more powerful if done in a group setting, because Soul-Collage workshops permit others to ask open-ended questions to deepen the readers’ understanding.

“SoulCollage workshops are a safe space, free of judgment and criticism,” Sue says, adding that the cards can be

used in a variety of set-tings, including prayer card readings, daily or weekly card readings, community building exercises, times of transition, and celebrations of special events.

“It’s important to remem-ber that there’s no right or wrong way to do it,” Sue says. “It’s your own work and your own soul. And it’s a wonderful way to access that.”

For more information on SoulCollage®, visit www.soulcollage.com.

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As Vicki Jackimiec got out of the car at her father’s funeral, an elderly friend of the family approached her.

“Please don’t take this the wrong way, honey,” the woman said. “I haven’t seen you since you were three months old, but I’d know you were your father’s daughter anywhere. You look just like him.”

Vicki was horror-struck. The last time she had seen her father was two months before the funeral. He had weighed over 600 pounds. His weight and the health problems that it caused had left him nearly immobilized in his final days. His wife had to assist him with his daily functions, including personal hygiene.

He had told Vicki then, “If I knew it was going to be this bad, I’d have taken better care of myself.”

After his funeral, with the woman’s words still in her memory, Vicki looked at herself in the mirror. She already weighed 330 pounds. And she knew that

her resemblance to her dad could be deadly. “I had the same hands, same feet shape, same blue eyes, and, unfortunately, the same body type and propensity to gain weight,” Vicki says. “I was the spitting image of my dad.”

Her body suffered from a myri-ad of health problems, too, includ-ing diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, acid reflux, and fatigue—many of the diseases her father had suffered as well.

“I never went to the second floor of our house,” Vicki admits. “I would wait until my husband got the paper every morning be-cause the walk down the drive-way was exhausting. Life wasn’t pretty and was getting grimmer by the moment.”

Her father’s slow, painful death haunted her, showing her what her own future held if she didn’t change—dramatically.

“It broke my heart to see my stepmother having to care for my father as though he were a 600-pound child,” Vicki says. “I realized that if I stayed on this

path, that’s exactly what I would have to ask my husband to do for me someday.”

Over the next few years, she tried dozens of diets, but she couldn’t seem to make them stick. “There are so many things that you have to change when you’re heavy that it’s overwhelming,” Vicki says. “I didn’t know where to start. I was eating all the wrong foods at all the wrong times and not exercising. Everything you can do wrong, I was doing wrong. I would try to cut out one thing, but it didn’t feel like it would make any difference.”

She looked into getting cover-age for a gastric bypass surgery, which places a small sack in the stomach to restrict food intake for about a year and a half. However, her insurance didn’t cover the surgery.

“I’d like to say that I came home from my father’s funeral on fire, but sometimes it doesn’t happen that way; it happens a lot slower,” she says. “I would pick up the phone and make a few calls about what my insurance would cover.

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I went to a couple of seminars for weight loss and surgeries. I dragged my feet, still eating ‘bad foods’—carbs, carbon-ated sodas, and sweets. I kept saying, ‘I’ll get to it, I’ll get to it.’”

One day, she was complaining about how many diets she’d tried and failed and that her insurance wouldn’t cover surgery.

Her listening friend encouraged her, “Just do it, even if you have to pay for it yourself—this is your life!”

“For some reason, that’s all I needed to hear,” Vicki says. “It was my ‘Aha!’ moment.”

Vicki looked into her insurance policy again and learned that a gastric bypass surgery had just been added to her coverage the month before. She called her insurance and asked, “‘What do I have to do?’ They gave me a long list of people I had to talk to before the surgery. And I told them, ‘I will do every step.’”

One step involved meeting with a nu-tritionist for six months before surgery. If she missed a meeting, the six-month clock started over. The nutritionist helped her isolate unhealthy habits and make changes, one at a time, to prepare her to adopt a healthier lifestyle after surgery.

“Most people think the surgeons are all you need,” Vicki explains. “But they couldn’t be more wrong. Even though I got mad sometimes when the nutrition-

ist told me not to eat certain things or drink Diet Coke, I made the changes, and I didn’t miss a meeting. I was about to turn fifty years old, so I knew I had to take this seriously, because my time was running out.”

This was her life. With the images of her dad just before his passing in her mind, she told herself, “I will do any-thing not to feel that bad.”

In 2009, she had the gastric bypass surgery. In the months that followed, Vicki abandoned the breads, carbs, and sweets that used to comfort her. “I had to keep in mind that bending over to tie my shoes without effort and fitting in an airplane seat would be far more gratify-ing than yet another serving of mashed potatoes.”

Now, Vicki has shed 200 pounds and beat the diseases she had before. In less than two years, she went from wearing size thirty clothing to size two. When she comes home from work now, she puts her exercise clothes on immediate-

ly to make sure she runs on her treadmill at home, goes to Anytime Fitness, or takes a walk. “It’s a little trick,” she says. “When I come home from work, I never put paja-mas on. PJs tell me I can go to bed or just watch TV. Instead, I immediately put my workout clothes on because it’s a mental note that says, ‘Go do it!’”

Vicki also teaches seminars on the benefits of healthy living and encourages others in the same situation with her

success story. In one such seminar, a woman in the

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“Your story about your dad—that’s my story, too,” the woman said. “This is the third seminar like this I’ve been to. I’ve been resisting change. But my friend leaned over when you shared your story and told me, ‘Your guardian angel is talking.’”

“Just do it!” Vicki encouraged the woman. “Just like my dad, your turning point to make a change may come and go, and the opportunity is lost unless you just do it. Focus on all the wonder-ful opportunities that unfold by living a healthier life.”


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ngaging, erudite, and energetic, Dr. Edward B. Burger took Southwestern University’s leadership reins last summer as its fifteenth president. Since his first official campus visit nearly a year ago, Dr. Burger has diligently

connected with all facets of Southwestern—faculty, staff, students, and alumni—as well as the extended Georgetown community. As Dr. Burger anticipates his SU journey, he peppers commentary with words like innovation, integrity, and intentionality. He offers a compelling portrait of thinking and learning.


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on southWestern/georgetoWn connectIons: “They’re important to each other, and you saw that beautifully at the

first pep rally and our first [football] game. It really showed the true promise of ‘town-gown,’ how if we all embrace it, this could

be an amazing college town. It’s good for all of us, that kind of energy … just extremely important. … I’m also sensitive to the other side, which is that we have events at Southwestern open

to the public, all free. I want more people to be inspired by our beautiful grounds [and] I want people to know they’re welcome. … The [cam-pus] commitment to civic engagement is, I think, robust and profound … [and] not a lot of schools have the participation that we have. We have students working with local elementary schools; there’s Operation Achievement, outreach with Paideia programs, and partnerships with Texas Life Sciences Collaboration Center.”

on What’s dIFFerent about southWestern: “Alumni don’t talk about a program or generic major but about an individual. The people on this campus—faculty, staff, and students who engage with their peers—are committed to being educators. People take that seriously, and the indi-viduals who’ve studied at SU acknowledge that as an important compo-nent. That’s exciting and distinctive.”

on preparIng For the coLLege experIence: “Parents, be thoughtful about what’s to be accomplished [by your child]. I suggest [that students] should look at one’s undergraduate career, no matter at which university [and]realize it’s a place and a time for individuals to really shape how they think, how they innovate, how they analyze, discovering … tastes and intellectual passions, at the same time practicing habits of com-munication, so they can articulate their ideas. … Your undergraduate education should be daunting because every experience you face should challenge you to rethink something. It’s a time to practice. It’s not a time to cross off a checklist of things. … Don’t define education as ‘credential-ism.’ Also, cultivate the habit of creating questions, just one of the ways you can think more effectively. Constantly ask yourself, ‘What should I be asking here?’”

on the practIcaLIty oF LIberaL arts In a technoLogIcaL age: “The reason we have so many institutions of higher learning is because there’s diversity of tastes and interests. For some individuals, it might be to learn a particular skill or trade, which is noble. … But you see, some technical skills will very quickly become obsolete … any fixed skill set you learn today … will not be the cutting-edge tomorrow. Many vocations of twenty years from now don’t even exist today. I think that the ‘impractical liberal arts’ are some of the most practical to train intellectual agility and pro-voke [for] change. That’s what education is about, right?”


on hIs choIce oF career/vocatIon: “I never had any aspirations of be-ing a teacher or mathematician; I had wanted to be a lawyer since my earliest memories. It’s respected, important, you can make a lot of money. … Quality of life issues were lost on me when I was young. Early on, I wasn’t strong in arithmetic—no prodigy. Around alge-bra, I realized there are many creative paths to an answer. That epiphany was very potent. I had some amazing math teachers, especially my calculus teacher, Liza Metzler. I kept feeding the flame … [through college and graduate school], thinking, ‘I’ll figure out what math is, then I’ll go to law school.’ I was just having fun, immersing myself in this beautiful, abstract discipline, mak-ing new discoveries through research. … Then I realized I could actually earn a living having fun.”

on “encouragIng and reWardIng eFFectIve FaILure,” an InnovatIve teachIng concept oF dr. burger’s noted In The huffinGTon PosT’s 100 game changers oF 2010 aWard: “True innovation will not happen seamlessly. The element of change is one that requires some risk, so not getting ‘it’ right, or failing effectively, is necessary. Like Thomas Edison, we learn from failed attempts. The other element is to ‘push the envelope,’ to intentionally fail, to take the issue or program and push it to its limits [in order to] to see what happens. The idea of taking something to the breakpoint or one step beyond provides deep insight.”

Well aware that some students are “math-phobic” or may not share his passion for mathematics, Dr. Burger began developing instructional videos in 1997, utilizing CD-ROM and Internet technology. His more than 3,000 les-sons target subjects and settings from kindergarten through college, from home-schooling to traditional venues around the world. Students can check out his rope demonstration at the Boston Public Library or “The Top Ten List of Algebra Mistakes” on YouTube. Additionally, Dr. Burger has served as guest lecturer in locales as diverse as Hungary, France, Greece, Australia, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Canada, and Mexico.

Much of Dr. Burger’s adult life has been spent in New England, first at Connecticut College for undergradu-ate work, then at Williams College in Massachusetts since 1990, and most recently as its Francis Christopher Oak-

ley Third Century Professor of Mathematics. Yet he’s no stranger to Texas. He did his doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 he received a prestigious national award from Baylor, the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. During his two years in Waco, Dr. Burger served as professor and, later, as vice-provost for strategic educational initiatives. Recognized nationally with numerous other mathematics awards, he’s also made media appearances on programs such as NBC’s “Science of the Winter Olympics” segments and has been an educational program advisor for the CBS series NUMB3RS.

Dr. Burger has authored or co-authored thirty-five research papers and twelve books. He describes his most recent publication, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, as a “little teeny short read which invites people to think better.” Thinking ahead, he envisions Southwestern’s future—engaging minds, transforming lives.

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Buried GiantsFamed mountain range stretches into Central Texas

The Hill Country is known for its distinc-tive geological features: pocked limestone out-croppings that often jut

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The karst-like terrain, carved out over thousands of years by water running along the lime-stone beds, points to a geological secret, however. If you were to drill 1,500 feet below the sur-face some twenty miles west of Georgetown, through all those ac-cumulated layers of 125-million-year-old limestone, you would run into the Appalachian Mountains.

“The Balcones Fault Zone that extends from Dallas, to Waco, to Austin, to Del Rio [is] the surface expression of [these] underlying mountains,” explains geologist Don Beaumont, who before retiring served for more than forty years as a geologist with Texaco and Knowledge Systems. “The displace-ment on these faults drops our limestones from fifty feet to several hundred feet down the east side of the Appalachian Mountains, while the limestones over the mountains remain largely undisturbed. Move-

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ment along the Balcones Fault [has given] rise to caverns, springs, and some of our subsurface drinking water, [plus] undetermined natural gas potential.”

The buried mountain range bears little resemblance to the one stretching through the coastal South Atlantic states, known as the Smoky Mountains in the Caro-linas and as the Blue Ridge Moun-tains in Georgia. Near the Missis-sippi River, these mountains slip underground, hidden under long-accumulated river deposits. They continue to run underground until Arkansas, where they emerge as the Ouachita Mountains. Don ex-plains that the discovery of a link between these ranges is fairly re-cent. “Only in the last fifty years,” Don says, “have we suspected that they were connected.”

The technological develop-ments that made it possible to trace the connection between the Appalachian and the Ouachita ranges also revealed that the mas-sive interconnected chain does not end in Arkansas. Instead, the mountains return underground and then snake through Central Texas, concealed under multiple layers of limestone. “With the

development of reflection seismic subsurface imaging in the middle of the twentieth century,” Don ex-plains, “[we] can record the con-figuration of rocks to a depth of 25,000 feet and deeper. We now know that [all of these] mountains are connected.”

Although springs, caves, and limestone outcroppings bear little evidence of these buried moun-tains today, Don explains that the chain once towered over the landscape. It formed nearly 300 million years ago, he said, when Africa and South America col-lided to create the supercontinent Pangaea. At the time, they would have rivaled today’s Himalayans, with peaks of up to 30,000 feet. “Subsequent erosion reduced them to ‘rolling hills,’” says Don, who regularly teaches and speaks about geology at Senior Univer-sity and at local clubs. “Then [the hills] were buried by the lime-stones we know about here in Williamson County.”

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Strange Brew, a South Austin coffee house tucked away on Man-chaca, offers customers more than caffeine on

Sunday mornings. Along with a cup of brew, music gets the coffee house’s patrons going, courtesy of The Purgatory Players’ weekly Gospel Brunch.

Strange Brew opened in 2010 and has built a reputation as a hot spot for java-seeking college students, but since the 2012 addi-tion of an adjoined bar and music lounge, Strange Brew has become popular among live music fans as well.

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All are welcome, and since ad-mission is free to the public, those in the know come early to claim one of lounge’s 142 seats.

Austin musician Jeff Planken-horn—who along with venue owner Scott Ward brought the concept of a weekly gospel brunch to Strange Brew—joins Jon Dee Graham, Conrad Choucroun, and “Scrappy” Jud Newcomb on stage. About ten other musicians and guests rotate in when core members are away on tour.

“A lot of us are really lucky to be able to play [professionally]

most nights of the week with various different bands,” says Scrappy Jud. “[The gospel brunch] is a little different from a normal [nighttime] gig, but everyone’s drinking

mimosas and having just as much fun. I always enjoy playing on this stage.”

Each gospel brunch is offered to patrons with no set cover charge, although band members do pass around a tip collection jar for the musicians and to raise money for the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas.

Typically, tips are divided equally, with the food bank re-ceiving a band member’s share of the proceeds; but sometimes The Purgatory Players go all out, running canned food drives and presenting all donations to the food bank. During their week-long Thanksgiving food drive in 2012, the band raised $2,400 and gave 100 percent of the proceeds to the food bank.

“We decided early on that we wanted this to be mostly a charity gig,” says Scrappy Jud. “I think a lot of people like to start their Sundays doing this because you’re helping some people out and having some fun.”

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ihad an interesting conversa-tion with a woman I sat next to on a recent flight. We both have children in college and shared our empty nester

woes. After a few moments of silence, she asked about what I am doing now that my child is in college. I told her that I am a writer and speaker and that I had started writing profession-ally when my daughter was in middle school.

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saddened me and made me think back on my own journey. I could relate to this woman. There were times when I also felt I had to abandon or delay my aspirations while my child was young.

When we decide to become mothers, raising our children necessarily becomes a priority, whether we stay home with them or not. We make sure, to the best of our ability, that their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiri-tual needs are met. Sometimes, however, moms forget to nurture themselves in this process.

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do the thIngs you Love. Love art? Pal up with a friend who has children and stroll the kids through the local museum. Like to dig around in the yard? Purchase kid-sized gardening tools and let them dig holes while you prune the petunias.

keep LearnIng. Learning isn’t just for kids. In this season of motherhood, you may not be able to take a full load, but perhaps you can take one online course each semester. Check your local YMCA, recreation center, or col-lege for community education classes. Other online resources, such as Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org), offer free classes and libraries.


try somethIng neW. Always wanted to learn to knit or paint in water color or give a speech? Go for it. Get a baby sitter or swap childcare with a friend so that you can attend group meetings an hour or two each week. Learning or mastering something new has many benefits, including keeping your mind sharp and giving your self-esteem a boost.

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Gila Craig, a George-town woman with a big heart for dogs, lists a few of their finer traits: “They are

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In 2011, Gila’s desire to foster dogs took an inspiring twist of fate. As she cruised through pictures of possible foster pets at the Williamson County Animal Shelter’s Facebook page, her eyes settled on a pudgy yellow Lab named Charlie.

“His weight definitely prompted me to foster him,” Gila recalls. “I was in the middle of my own weight-loss journey, and I knew that I could apply the same principles to him, and he’d be losing weight in no time.”

Soon after Charlie arrived, however, Gila realized that he was limping. She immediately took him to her veterinarian, Dr. Oliver Engle. He weighed Charlie in at fifty pounds over the typical Lab weight of sixty-five to eighty pounds.

“Over eighty percent of my clients are overweight,” Dr. Engle says. “Treats are one of the biggest factors, as well as not measuring food correctly or even using the right tools to measure food. We use this rule of thumb: an eight-ounce cup per day of food for every twenty pounds of

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Charlie’s previous owners had apparently neglected to exercise him. His obesity led to an injury to his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), and his kneecaps were popping in and out of place, causing miserable pain. Gila learned that if Charlie didn’t lose weight, he would need surgery. That entailed a hefty price tag of $3,000.

Gila put Charlie on ten weeks of strict bed rest, allowing him to go out and play only as he felt willing. She then developed a healthy plan of action for Charlie. First, Gila researched Charlie’s caloric need and intentionally reduced it to a safe amount. Next, after his bed rest ended, the Craigs implemented an exercise routine that included running with Gila’s husband, Doug. On alternate days, exercise included

swimming and playtime with Gila at the Georgetown Bark Park.

“Charlie has responded fabulously,” Gila exclaims. “He is so much happier overall. When we got him, he wasn’t able to jump into the car [or] get on the couch.” In August 2013, Charlie reached his goal weight of sixty-eight pounds, with a total weight loss of 41.8 pounds. Dr. Engle gives a lot of credit for Charlie’s success to Gila.

“Charlie is the biggest success weight-loss story in the last couple of years,” he shares. “It is not easy for a dog that is that overweight to get that much weight lost in such a short amount of time. Gila did a good job with Charlie and has improved his quality of life since she rescued him.”

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“Watch out, or the cops will getcha!’” Police Chief Wayne Nero,

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He leans back in his chair, reflecting. “We don’t want kids growing up being scared of police. We want them to understand that we’re the good guys, and they can come to us when they need something.”

That message, combined with the Georgetown PTA’s message promoting awareness of child-hood obesity, is what led the two entities to partner for the first an-nual Chase the Chief 5K and Fun Run in 2013, an event that allows the community to, well, chase the chief!

The family-friendly event takes place in San Gabriel Park and fea-tures a Pre-K obstacle course, an obstacle course, a chip-timed 5K race, and a fun run during which Chief Nero is clad in full uniform.

“This is what I get for not being a part of those [initial planning] meetings,” Chief Nero says with amusement. “It comes down to me being chased, which is great.”

This year’s event will take place on April 13, says PTA committee member Rebecca English. “There will also be educational booths at the event. We expect about fifteen nutritional food booths, fitness companies, and nonprofits to be in attendance—offering free recipes, tips, and healthy food samples—and our goal is to have 800 people participate in the run.”

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For many kids, says Rebecca, Chase the Chief is not only their first 5K but also one of their first positive experiences with the police department. Everyone who crosses the finish line before the chief does will receive a prize, and there will be a photo op area where participants can get their picture taken with Chief Nero and other officers after the race.

“We want it to be a friendly community event where kids can learn to make healthy choices and be exposed to the police depart-ment in a fun environment. It worked out that the first one was super fun and super successful, and we can’t wait to do it again,” Rebecca says.

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Joe Rothenberg was twelve when he learned to use the computer animation software Adobe Flash and Multimedia Fusion 2. A

year later, he and fellow thir-teen-year-old Austin Tompkins started a summer animation and video game camp to teach other children how to design their own video games.

“At first I think parents were skeptical,” Joe says. “But that was only on the first day. Once kids went home from the first day, we’d always hear from parents, ‘They could not stop talking about it!’ Because you got to make a video game! We did not waste time.”

The camp had spots for thirty-six students, and at only $100 per week, kids who couldn’t afford most high-tech camps could par-ticipate. It was so successful that Joe and Austin offered the camp three times per summer for seven years.

“At the time, we thought we were just teaching people to make video games for fun,” Joe says. But with the growing popularity of video games and applications, anyone now “could theoretically make a living from these skills.”

And that’s just what Joe does. Ten years after hosting his first summer camp in his parents’ “stu-dio garage” in Georgetown, the twenty-three-year-old animator, director, and video game creator is parlaying the skills he learned as an adolescent into a new ani-mated video game: Ping.

Though similar to Pong, the two-dimensional tennis-like ar-cade game released in the 1970s,

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Pursuing a PassionFrom playing video games to creating them

Joe’s Mac and PC-compatible computer game adds an offensive component—missiles—to comput-er-based ping-pong.

“It’s like Pong, but so much better,” Joe says enthusiastically. “It’s silly and it’s fun, and you’re mostly shooting at the ball to in-fluence its movement. It feels sort of like a sports game or fighting game but without the violence.”

Joe created the prototype for Ping when he was studying animation at the University of Southern California, but he didn’t consider its commercial viability until a group of investors offered him seed money to pursue the game. Now, the company has about $15,000 in funding, with Joe among the investors.

“At this point, my salary is nonexistent, but the process is exciting. I’m learning everything about creating a new piece of entertainment and trying to get people engaged with it.”

Currently, Joe and his team—which includes two composers, four producers, an artist, and a team liaison—estimate that about 5,000 people are aware of

or more about Joe and his projects, visit www.joerothenberg.com/.


Ping, and they’re gearing up for a big campaign push and full launch in early 2014.

Joe already has a sequel planned for Ping and another game called Run and Jump Fred, which will merge his love for video games with animation.

“With Ping, the only real animation is the trailer … but with Fred, I’ll try to tie the mechanics of the game in with the story. This is something that indie game developers are just starting to discover to make video games a richer experi-ence, so I want in on that.”

The thrill of getting one of his ideas funded and bringing it to life has signifi-cantly altered his worldview, Joe says. “In college they tell you they’re prep-ping to go into an industry and start a career, and even if you’re a freelancer, there will always be rules,” Joe explains. “But I think it might fit my personality a lot better to just pursue projects I enjoy. Just to do them! You can do that!” he enthuses.

“I got a little bit of backing—it’s not a huge investment or risk for them—but it could be a huge thing for all of us if we connect with a fan base.”

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Bundled in a matching stock-ing cap and scarf, and sport-ing warm woolen socks, a heavy, knee-length jacket, and durable, snow-resistant boots,

I still shivered with excitement. It was early February, and I’d just arrived at the Daruma Ichi Festival in Japan’s Fuku-shima Province.

Vendors lined the streets on either side, preparing feasts of Japanese street food on large electric grills. Among the offerings were grilled squid on a stick, candied strawberries, and bowls of fresh octopus. I wanted to try it all.

After surveying the abundant selection of offerings, I paid an elderly Japanese woman 250 yen for my ayu on a stick and bit through the fish’s crispy skin.

“Mmm … delicious!” I said through the white surgical mask I was urged to wear. It was influenza season, and practically everyone was wearing masks to prevent the flu from spreading.

“It has to do with being considerate,” said my friend Abraham, who had already lived in Japan for nearly a year, teach-ing English to Japanese students. “Everyone is in

such close quarters here, so it’s really the polite thing to do.”

Abraham and I continued walking, passing vibrant pop-up shops peddling toys and masks of cartoon characters like the famous Pokémon character Pikachu, the über-popular cat from Hello Kitty, and Disney’s animated blue alien, Stitch.

At last, we reached a tent displaying an assortment of hollowed-out daruma dolls in differ-ent sizes and colors. Each doll was handmade out of papier-mâché and painted by Japanese artisans.

People purchase eyeless daruma dolls at the festival, celebrated throughout Japan from January to early March, and color in the right eye of the doll once they’ve made a wish or resolution for the year. After that resolution or wish comes true, the doll’s owner may color in the daruma’s left eye. Daruma dolls are talismans of good luck, intended to motivate people to keep track of and see their goals through to completion. There’s nothing sadder than a one-eyed daruma.

At the next year’s Daruma Ichi Festival, participants cast their old daruma dolls in a communal fire pit and purchase new, slightly larger daruma dolls. Children commonly start out with tiny darumas, and adults have bigger ones.

That year, I purchased my first daruma, painted traditionally in red, black, white, and gold. And I’m proud to say that it ended the year with two large, dark eyes.

Making Wishes on DollsCelebrating Japan’s Daruma Ichi Festival

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