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<strong>Southern</strong><br />
IndIana<br />
Nov / Dec <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>Living</strong><br />
Special Section:<br />
Holiday Events<br />
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Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 4
Featured Stories<br />
12 | FOLLOWING TRUE NORTH<br />
Local boutique offers handmade items that are functional<br />
and beautiful<br />
25 | HOLIDAY SHOPPING & EVENT GUIDE<br />
Events and Shopping for the holiday season<br />
34 | TAKE A BITE ON THE WILD SIDE<br />
Wild Eggs offers unique, delectable breakfast options<br />
12<br />
40 | WHO BENEFITS THE MOST?<br />
A doctor’s perspective after a trip to the Ukraine<br />
44 | A Thoughtful Gift<br />
Local artist honors veterinarian with handmade plaques<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong><br />
NOV / DEC <strong>2018</strong><br />
In Every Issue<br />
7 | FLASHBACK PHOTO<br />
Dreaming of a White Christmas, New Albany, IN, 1930<br />
9 | A NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS<br />
Offcially Old... Unoffcially Clueless<br />
10 | A WALK IN THE GARDEN WITH BOB HILL<br />
More than just pumpkin and pines<br />
10<br />
18 | OUR TOWN<br />
Madison, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
22 | COMMUNITY PAGES<br />
Spotlight on Leadership <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>, Hunger to<br />
Hope, and more!<br />
37 | #BUYLOCAL<br />
Local Business Spotlight<br />
43 | REAL LIFE NUTRITION<br />
Tips and tricks to prevent you from packing on the<br />
pounds during the holidays<br />
18<br />
46 | EVERYDAY ADVENTURES<br />
All I want for Christmas<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 5
nonprofit SUPPORT: no icing needed<br />
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which contains new tax<br />
reforms negotiated by Congress and signed into law by the<br />
president, is causing several people and organizations<br />
across our nation, including nonprofits, to worry. Some<br />
nonprofit leaders have expressed deep concerns that the<br />
elimination of the charitable tax deduction as a result of the<br />
legislation will drastically reduce support from donors. This<br />
did not occur during previous tax reforms, and we do not<br />
believe it will occur now.<br />
Many studies over the years have shown the tax break is<br />
not the motivator for charitable giving. We Americans give<br />
because we believe in the work of the nonprofits we<br />
support. We like to help others and make our communities a<br />
better place to live. We love our churches, our schools and<br />
youth sports. We abhor the reality of hunger and loathe the<br />
abuse of the vulnerable. The tax break is, or rather was, just<br />
icing on the cake for our charitable giving.<br />
Our nonprofits are still out there teaching, feeding,<br />
protecting, healing and entertaining. They need our<br />
financial support no less today than they did before the new<br />
tax reform legislation was passed. Everyone in our<br />
community can continue to give time, talent and treasure to<br />
help our nonprofits. It won’t hurt a bit to go without the<br />
icing.<br />
We encourage you to partner with us to support your<br />
favorite charitable causes. You can donate lots of ways,<br />
including cash, check, online, securities or agricultural<br />
products. You can also establish an endowment fund or plan<br />
your giving by leaving HCCF in your will or estate plan, so<br />
you can leave a lasting legacy.<br />
For more information, review our website at<br />
www.hccfindiana.org, or give us a call at 812-738-6668.<br />
The tax break was<br />
just icing on the<br />
cake. It won’t hurt a<br />
bit to go without<br />
the icing.<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 6
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NOV / DEC <strong>2018</strong><br />
VOL. 11, ISSUE 6<br />
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Dreaming of a White Christmas<br />
New Albany, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
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This snapshot shows a glimpse of a snowy morning in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>. According to library<br />
records, this beautiful snowy scene was captured at the “Hedden Home” at 801 Vincennes<br />
Street around 1930.<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 7
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A Note to Baby Boomers<br />
Offcially Old, Unoffcially Clueless<br />
S<br />
trangers no longer drop off packets.<br />
The phone rings less. The mailbox<br />
overflows only when Amazon delivers.<br />
I finally am 65.<br />
A card in my wallet says so.<br />
The hordes of Medicare supplement<br />
salespeople have moved on. You poor<br />
whippersnappers of 64, hang in there.<br />
Trust me, making it to 65 feels like making<br />
it to 21 or to 16.<br />
As if I can recall much about making<br />
it to those ages.<br />
I do know I wanted to be popular<br />
back then, not at 64. Being in demand at<br />
64 turned out as fun as being in line at the<br />
cable TV place. But hey, for we seniors,<br />
crankiness is not just our right, it’s our responsibility.<br />
We are sworn to swear.<br />
Who’s that on my lawn?<br />
Where’s my senior discount?<br />
Really, I have to pee again?<br />
Why they’d cancel “The Love Boat”?<br />
Good thing Medicare is earned by<br />
age, not by attitude. With or without dimples,<br />
I am no Doris Day. But am I ready to<br />
be a stereotypical snarky old guy? At 65,<br />
what am I?<br />
Who am I?<br />
Well, I rationalize up a storm. I buy<br />
a $70 shirt in August and call it a birthday<br />
gift to myself. Though my birthday was<br />
two months later.<br />
I go on whipping up a conspiracy<br />
that technology is against me. I kid you<br />
not, I almost bought a particular new<br />
car just because it has a CD player. Stuff<br />
bought shouldn’t be smarter than the<br />
buyer, should it? Yet here I am, sounding<br />
all but ready to return to the party-line<br />
phone.<br />
I will not lather on the sunscreen<br />
next time. Too much trouble. I will go on<br />
lying to the dermatologist. Skin cancer<br />
killed my father and it was a despicable<br />
way to go. Why am I too lazy to buck the<br />
trend?<br />
I have been invited, more than once,<br />
to join an Optimist Club. I passed, assuming<br />
optimism to be a rather crucial qualification,<br />
while I tend to make too little of<br />
good days and too much of bad ones.<br />
At 65, I realize I should live until I<br />
die. Medicare will help. Will I help myself?<br />
Being in demand at 64 turned out as fun as being in<br />
line at the cable TV place. But hey, for we seniors,<br />
crankiness is not just our right, it’s our responsibility.<br />
We are sworn to swear.<br />
I no longer gain or lose weight.<br />
My belly and I are clearly in it together for<br />
the long haul. So at 65, I will go on eating<br />
neither smartly nor stupidly. Churchill<br />
Downs will have look elsewhere for another<br />
jockey.<br />
At 65, I am weird and getting more<br />
so. I buy shampoo and razor blades<br />
months before I run out. I usually pay bills<br />
as soon as I get them. I cannot remember<br />
my last tub bath. I enjoy being with dogs<br />
as much as with people. Thunder Over<br />
Louisville is one of the last places I want<br />
to be.<br />
I enjoy returning home almost as<br />
much as I enjoy traveling.<br />
I look forward to seeing what is in<br />
each day’s mail. I get on inexplicable kicks<br />
with food; as I write this, I cannot drink<br />
too much V8 juice. Before that, it was fish<br />
sticks and yellow Oreos.<br />
At 65, I am on my first wife, 43 years<br />
gratefully great. I had one employer from<br />
college to retirement. I live in the same<br />
house in which I grew up. Change is<br />
good, of course. It’s just not always been<br />
imperative for me. Stability is more an accomplishment<br />
than a compromise.<br />
I am proud but I could be more<br />
proud. At 65, I volunteer but I could volunteer<br />
more. I read but I could read more.<br />
I am tolerant but I could be more tolerant.<br />
And Lord knows I could be more patient<br />
and more curious.<br />
At 65, will I keep making an impact?<br />
For that matter, what impact did I<br />
make I at 55 and 45 and …? Opportunities<br />
abound to be a better husband, father,<br />
grandfather, friend, neighbor and citizen. I<br />
take some and miss too many others.<br />
At 65, continuing to care remains a<br />
must, not an option. Who am I trying to<br />
convince?<br />
My father told everyone to stop and<br />
smell the roses. Then the sun killed him<br />
before he did his share of sniffng. He died<br />
before he could retire, before mom and he<br />
could spend my inheritance. He did not<br />
make it to 65, to Medicare.<br />
I did.<br />
I am old, certified by Uncle Sam,<br />
with obviously a batch of new questions<br />
to answer. Some of you nail this senior<br />
thing.<br />
Now it’s truly my turn to try. •<br />
After 25 years, Dale Moss<br />
retired as <strong>Indiana</strong> columnist for<br />
The Courier-Journal. He now<br />
writes weekly for the News and<br />
Tribune. Dale and his wife Jean<br />
live in Jeffersonville in a house<br />
that has been in his family<br />
since the Civil War. Dale’s<br />
e-mail is dale.moss@twc.com<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 9
A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill<br />
More than Just Pumpkin and Pines<br />
Crabapples at Hidden Hill<br />
Finding beauty in the winter landscape<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 10
As the world leans toward autumn<br />
and the holiday season,<br />
most thoughts turn toward<br />
mums, asters, the Great Pumpkin<br />
and if this is the year Santa will finally<br />
ditch the sleigh and reindeer and show up<br />
via Amazon and a UPS truck.<br />
My thoughts are somewhat less<br />
than traditional. They include acorns, crab<br />
apples and hardy oranges.<br />
Let us begin with the acorns. For the<br />
last many autumns, they have dropped<br />
down from a mammoth pin oak behind<br />
our house and ping-slammed off the metal<br />
roof of our gazebo directly below.<br />
It is not the poetic ping of rain falling<br />
on a metal roof. It is more crisp and<br />
random. The pings come every few minutes,<br />
occasionally in bunches and on quiet,<br />
windless days not at all. It’s gravity at<br />
work; the pings come year after year and<br />
still somehow surprise.<br />
But this autumnal story goes deeper<br />
than that. Its connections are more nostalgic.<br />
I planted that pin oak tree about 30<br />
years ago when it was but a 3-foot sapling.<br />
I have since learned to avoid pin oaks.<br />
They are very inconsistent trees. Some<br />
will eventually tower 50 feet in the year<br />
— as does this ping producing model in<br />
our backyard. Others will be less robust,<br />
develop diseases and require the arrival<br />
of a large crew of tree trimmers who will<br />
take it to the ground for a robust amount<br />
of money.<br />
Our massive pin oak is a different<br />
kind of survivor. The day I planted it — a<br />
time when our arboretum was but a hope<br />
in a flat field of weeds — my dad backed<br />
over it in a car. He didn’t see it; the tree<br />
was that small. I figured it was a goner,<br />
but it survived nicely. It came to dominate<br />
the landscape, then began the autumnal<br />
ritual of dropping acorns on our tin gazebo<br />
roof.<br />
But my dad is gone now, too. I can<br />
never look at that tree, or hear those pings,<br />
and not think about him, his sense of humor,<br />
his love for our mom and their five<br />
shared children, his worried reaction to<br />
running over my baby pin oak. Trees can<br />
do that to people. Especially as the holiday<br />
season draws near. Our angry hoard<br />
of acorn-pillaging squirrels, however,<br />
have no such feelings.<br />
My crabapple trees offer a different<br />
tale. I didn’t do much gardening or tree<br />
planting until I was about 30 years old.<br />
At the time, we were living in another old<br />
farmhouse on an acre of rich farm land in<br />
Northern Illinois.<br />
Part of that land, of course, was<br />
converted into a huge garden on which<br />
we raised enough food to feed a small European<br />
country. But the outskirts of that<br />
property needed some color, more food,<br />
Hardy Oranges at Hidden Hill<br />
so we planted a row of small, hopeful<br />
apple trees.<br />
I knew nothing of growing small,<br />
hopeful apple trees. As it turned out they<br />
did require careful pruning, bug and disease<br />
deterrents and, as youngsters, some<br />
watering. But I feel in love with their<br />
spring blooms, those incredible flowers<br />
that somehow led to edible apples.<br />
Then I got to thinking about crabapple<br />
trees, which produced those same<br />
lovely flowers in a wide variety of showy<br />
colors, required a lot less maintenance and<br />
offered up those fun crabapples in the fall.<br />
It was all food for thought — not to forget<br />
hungry birds and four-legged critters.<br />
When we left our Northern Illinois<br />
farm — those original apple trees still<br />
babies — I made another futile attempt<br />
at growing apples in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
They quickly became a suckering mess, so<br />
I jumped totally into crabapples. We must<br />
now have a half-dozen around the place;<br />
each firing up spring with rich colors and<br />
producing a wide variety of tiny apples in<br />
the fall.<br />
Yet I still think about that old farm<br />
in Northern Illinois, our first attempts as<br />
gardening to scale. I recall those frozen<br />
winter nights in a farmhouse so drafty and<br />
poorly insulated the frigid winds would<br />
ruffe the living room curtains as we sat<br />
inside bundled up with the kids trying to<br />
watch the Christmas stories on television.<br />
And for years afterward, as we<br />
drove by that old house, I checked to see<br />
how those first apple trees were doing.<br />
You wouldn’t think trees — crab and otherwise<br />
— could inspire such memories,<br />
but they do.<br />
Our hardy orange experience rings<br />
another bell. First up, you can grow oranges<br />
in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>. Promise. It’s a<br />
lot cheaper than two weeks in Palm Beach<br />
I recall those frozen<br />
winter nights in a<br />
farmhouse so drafty<br />
and poorly insulated<br />
the frigid winds would<br />
ruffe the living room<br />
curtains as we sat<br />
inside bundled up<br />
with the kids trying to<br />
watch the Christmas<br />
stories on television.<br />
and they are hardy in zone 5 to 8; Chicago<br />
weather.<br />
The hardy orange goes by the Latin<br />
Poncirus trifoliata. Its most common cultivar<br />
is “Flying Dragon” and it is native to<br />
central and northern China. I cannot remember<br />
where we got our tree, but as a<br />
seasonal novelty you can’t beat it.<br />
For holiday fun, take your guests<br />
outside as the tree leaves are beginning<br />
to turn red, yellow and orange, and then<br />
show them a genuine Hoosier orange.<br />
Many will go “Ho Ho Ho” months ahead<br />
of schedule.<br />
Hardy oranges are edible — if you<br />
like having your face squinch up like a<br />
dishrag as you taste the liquid bitterness.<br />
Some reports show it to be toxic, but I<br />
doubt if anyone could drink enough of<br />
the stuff to create any real problems. It<br />
also has long, very sharp thorns and can<br />
grow to 15 feet tall, solving a problem of<br />
nosy neighbors.<br />
It does contain pectin, which the<br />
early settlers used in making jams and<br />
jellies. More seasonal good news is the<br />
juice can be diluted into a holiday drink<br />
of sorts. All you have to do is serve it once<br />
to Christmas guests you never want to see<br />
again and your problem is solved. •<br />
About the Author<br />
Bob Hill owns Hidden Hill<br />
Nursery and can be<br />
reached at farmerbob@<br />
hiddenhillnursery.com.<br />
For more information,<br />
including nursery hours<br />
and event information, go<br />
to www.hiddenhillnursery.<br />
com<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 11
Holiday Shopping<br />
Following True North<br />
Local boutique offers handmade items that are beautiful and functional<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 12<br />
Story by Darian Eswine<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman
Michelle Ryan’s dad once<br />
told her that True North<br />
in the biblical sense meant<br />
that if you follow north,<br />
geographically, you would end up a few<br />
hundred miles away from the true north.<br />
“Dad, you just told me what the name of<br />
the shop is going to be,” she told him. Ryan<br />
applied this to her life and her business.<br />
“Applied in life and biblically, if you<br />
follow your true north you stay on the<br />
right track, treat people well, do the right<br />
thing, just try to be the best that you can,”<br />
Ryan said.<br />
Ryan, a New Albany native, opened<br />
her shop downtown 3½ years ago. After<br />
taking a year to plan, she decided it was<br />
time to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
The shop True North follows the<br />
handmade movement, providing functional<br />
pieces that are also nice to view. In<br />
her preparation, she had already attended<br />
art festivals and fairs and reached out to a<br />
network of people to decide whose work<br />
to carry in the store.<br />
“There are over 50 different artisans.<br />
Almost all of them are local, which is really<br />
special to me because I love having<br />
a one-on-one connection with these people,”<br />
she said. “It’s like they’re family.”<br />
She said there is much more of an<br />
emotional investment and connection<br />
through the process of working with local<br />
artisans. It also allows for quick communication<br />
if someone has a custom request.<br />
True North carries a variety of items,<br />
from wall hangings and coffee tables to<br />
vintage clothing and handmade jewelry.<br />
Ryan wanted the products to be made<br />
with natural resources and more functional<br />
than not.<br />
“The more minimal people are with<br />
their lifestyles now, they tend to veer<br />
away from stuff that isn’t functional and<br />
also pretty to look at,” Ryan said.<br />
One of Ryan’s favorite things is the<br />
ceramic line by Dallas Wooten. “It wows<br />
me every time he brings a collection in,”<br />
she said. “And it’s kind of a tie between<br />
Paul Weddington’s wild, wood-slabbed<br />
coffee tables and accent tables.”<br />
Ryan’s favorite part of the journey<br />
has been working with the locals and<br />
getting to know customers; however, the<br />
shop opened during a diffcult time.<br />
Fifteen days after the store opened,<br />
Ryan’s dad passed away. He left behind<br />
the name of the store and a way of life for<br />
Ryan.<br />
“We were best friends and it was<br />
very sudden, but when I was planning<br />
the store I didn’t want to stress about the<br />
name because there are so many things<br />
that come with it,” she said. “Not having<br />
him around makes the name even more<br />
special than its already special meaning.<br />
- Michelle Ryan,<br />
Owner of True North<br />
Pictured: (left hand page) A table filled with handmade candles and other items sits in the center of the store. (this page,<br />
top) handmade housewares from local artisans are available for purchase. (this page, bottom) this storage bench would be<br />
the persfect spot to sit and rest, or gather your things before heading out the door.<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 13
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 14<br />
Her bright personality,<br />
love for the people around<br />
her and passion for what<br />
she does translate into the<br />
atmosphere of her store.
It’s pretty incredible how all of that happened.<br />
I just love that he has to do with a<br />
part of it.”<br />
Just five days after her dad died, her<br />
stepmom passed away as well. Luckily,<br />
Ryan had a strong support system to keep<br />
the shop open during its first few weeks.<br />
“I didn’t even have to think about<br />
that because a friend of mine completely<br />
ran the store for me while I was away,”<br />
she said.<br />
Ryan’s stepmom made jewelry<br />
and Ryan wanted to continue that. “I really<br />
don’t re-create too much of the same<br />
thing, but I also make these lava rock<br />
rings, which have been taking off,” she<br />
said. “I’m really excited that I’ve been able<br />
to create a product that people are into.”<br />
Ryan dabbled in jewelry for several<br />
years, but only went full force when she<br />
opened True North.<br />
“I acquired her (stepmom’s) tools,<br />
which really made me want to use those<br />
and carry on the jewelry making thing.”<br />
Ryan also acquired her dad’s painting<br />
supplies. Although she has never<br />
painted, her grandma was also a painter.<br />
“If he was good at it, maybe I might be. I<br />
hope I’m good at it; I don’t know if I will<br />
be, but I’m going to try.”<br />
Her bright personality, love for the<br />
people around her and passion for what<br />
Pictured: (this page, top) Michelle Ryan, owner of True North, fulfilled a life long dream when she opened the shop 3<br />
1/2 years ago. (this page, bottom) Barn doors are available to purchase, as well as logo tees, bath and body products,<br />
in-house jewelry, handbags, housewares, and various vintage items.<br />
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she does translate into the atmosphere of<br />
her store.<br />
“I want people who come in to feel<br />
like this was a very inviting, warm atmosphere,<br />
that they felt inspired by all of<br />
the handcrafted goods they saw and that<br />
they leave feeling like they want to come<br />
back,” she said.<br />
Meeting new people and getting<br />
to share stories has been one of the most<br />
exciting parts for Ryan. As a New Albany<br />
native, she’s also been able to see the town<br />
develop rapidly over the past few years.<br />
“I feel like it’s to the point definitely<br />
now that there’s no worry of it becoming<br />
a ghost town again. It’s just on the incline<br />
consistently and steadily going up and<br />
up,” she said.<br />
Louisville restaurants taking a<br />
chance and opening locations in New Albany<br />
really grew and expanded the community.<br />
“That to me was showing people<br />
that they were taking the risk to invest<br />
here because they saw the possibility.”<br />
Ryan only anticipates growth in the<br />
future for New Albany and for True North<br />
as well. Down the road, she said, she’s<br />
toying with the idea of a mobile boutique.<br />
“I have the interest to travel, but it’s<br />
very hard to do — a little cute trailer that I<br />
could pop up wherever I wanted and do a<br />
pop-up shop,” she said.<br />
Ryan runs the place by herself as the<br />
owner, but has two interns — one from<br />
New Albany High School and one from<br />
Community Montessori.<br />
“They are tremendously helpful and<br />
I enjoy the teaching aspect too of it all,”<br />
she said. “It’s very fulfilling for me to be<br />
able to share knowledge.”<br />
Ryan has stayed true to her vision<br />
from beginning to end. When she first<br />
moved the shop into the building, it was<br />
being renovated so she was able to commission<br />
local artists to create the sign out<br />
front.<br />
“I commissioned them — Shelly and<br />
Kyle Daughtery — to make our hanging<br />
sign,” she said. “The timing was perfect<br />
that I was moving over here and able to<br />
put that sign out — I was really excited<br />
that I could utilize them.”<br />
Ryan has an exciting future ahead<br />
for the shop, but also for herself. About a<br />
year ago, her jewelry line was picked up<br />
by Revelry, 5-0-Lou and Mercantile on<br />
Main. “I’m excited to create a collection<br />
for them and have that in stores — so exciting!”<br />
she said.<br />
As far as following her true north,<br />
Ryan’s main goal is simply to remain in<br />
one location. “I know it sounds kind of<br />
funny — but I just want to put my everything<br />
into this one.” •<br />
For more information on True North, visit<br />
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Facebook page @TrueNorth812.<br />
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Our Town:<br />
Madison, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
Story and Photos submitted by the Madison Visitors Bureau<br />
Holidays in Madison, <strong>Indiana</strong>,<br />
are magical. The season<br />
will kick off with the annual<br />
Downtown Holiday Open<br />
House on Nov. 9. From 5 to 9 p.m., merchants<br />
will reveal their holiday windows<br />
with hope of being selected as the year’s<br />
display winner. Thus, the Christmas shopping<br />
season offcially begins, and excitement<br />
is in the air.<br />
If you like to haggle, Deal with the<br />
Dealer is just the thing. Twice a year, two<br />
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local antique dealers, Lumber Mill Antique<br />
Mall and Persnickety, let you name<br />
your price — within reason. This antique<br />
lovers’ event will be held on Saturday,<br />
Nov. 10.<br />
Madison boasts three award-winning<br />
wineries, Madison Vineyards Estate<br />
Winery, Thomas Family Winery and Lanthier<br />
Winery, each with its own unique<br />
style and atmosphere. Lanthier Winery<br />
gets the holidays underway with two<br />
popular events, Festival of Trees and Host<br />
of Angels, which run from Nov. 23 to Dec.<br />
24. Over 100 decorated trees are displayed<br />
in the winery, along with a collection of<br />
angels. They also offer a tree-trimming tutorial,<br />
Deck the Halls, on Nov. 11 and 18<br />
for those who are interested in learning<br />
the “how-to” of holiday splendor.<br />
Do you have a sweet tooth? If so,<br />
you won’t want to miss the Sugarplum<br />
Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 8. Complimentary<br />
samples of fudge and other<br />
sugary delights are offered from noon to
2 p.m. Last but not least, don’t miss the<br />
much anticipated release of Lanthier’s<br />
holiday wines, Rudolph Red, Snowflake<br />
White and St. Nicholas Blush.<br />
Don’t feel like cooking for Thanksgiving?<br />
Bring the family to the Falls<br />
Restaurant at Clifty Inn for some downhome,<br />
<strong>Southern</strong>-style cooking. Three buffet<br />
seating times are available. Relax and<br />
let someone else do the cooking and the<br />
dishes!<br />
Christy’s Candles & Gifts hosts its<br />
yearly Tour of Christy’s on the Friday before<br />
Thanksgiving, Nov. 16. This event offers<br />
25 percent off store-wide, along with<br />
complimentary wine, cheese and crackers.<br />
Hurry — it only lasts four hours!<br />
Small Business Saturday happens<br />
each year on the day after Black Friday.<br />
“Mom and pop” businesses in the area offer<br />
one-of-a-kind gifts such as handmade<br />
soaps, cooking oils, spices and handdipped<br />
chocolates.<br />
For 37 years, Nights Before Christmas<br />
Candlelight Tour of Homes has been<br />
a holiday tradition in Madison. For four<br />
nights, on two consecutive weekends, local<br />
residents open their homes to the public.<br />
This year, six beautifully preserved<br />
private homes will be featured, in addition,<br />
local historic sites and a museum<br />
are open for tours. Select local businesses,<br />
situated along the tour route, serve<br />
as hospitality sites. In conjunction with<br />
the home tour is a sweet event called the<br />
Great Cookie Caper! Cookies and sweet<br />
treats will be available for purchase at<br />
the Visitors Center. Each year, a different<br />
charitable organization is selected to participate<br />
and receive all funds raised. This<br />
year, the tour has partnered with the local<br />
Salvation Army to host this event.<br />
Another popular custom during<br />
the holiday season is our build-your-own<br />
Gingerbread House for Kids and Gingerbread<br />
House for Grown-Ups. Bring your<br />
creativity and the History Center pro-<br />
For 37 years, Nights Before Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes has<br />
been a holiday tradition in Madison. For four nights, on two consecutive<br />
weekends, local residents open their homes to the public.<br />
Story by Jon Watkins<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 19
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Take a carriage ride with Broomtail Carriage and see the<br />
lights and sights of Christmas in downtown Madison,<br />
and bring the kids for the Very Merry Madison Christmas<br />
Parade. This small-town tradition, with a Macy’s style<br />
personality, is a favorite with locals and visitors.
vides the rest. Gingerbread houses are displayed<br />
during the annual holiday home<br />
tour and “architects” can pick up their<br />
masterpieces after the tour.<br />
Kids will love Breakfast with Santa<br />
or a ride on the Santa Express. Book early,<br />
because this ride sells out every year.<br />
Gather at the Historic Broadway Fountain<br />
for Light up Madison and Fourth Friday<br />
on Nov. 23, when the beautiful fountain<br />
and downtown area are illuminated for<br />
the season. Visit with Santa in his cottage<br />
at the Main Street Comfort Station. This<br />
repurposed gas station serves as a restroom<br />
and information facility for visitors.<br />
Other activities along Main Street<br />
include live music, free trolley rides and<br />
more. Take a carriage ride with Broomtail<br />
Carriage and see the lights and sights of<br />
Christmas in downtown Madison. And<br />
bring the kids for the Very Merry Madison<br />
Christmas Parade. This small-town tradition,<br />
with a Macy’s style personality, is a<br />
favorite with locals and visitors.<br />
The Handmade Market is a juried<br />
show filled with local handcrafted items.<br />
It is held on Saturday, Dec. 1, inside Little<br />
Golden Fox and offers unique Christmas<br />
gifts.<br />
The holidays wouldn’t be the same<br />
without the customary production of<br />
Handel’s Messiah. The Madison- Ohio<br />
Valley Community Chorus, Hanover College<br />
and the Louisville-<br />
Area Festival Orchestra combine<br />
to produce this moving musical event at<br />
Fitzgibbons Recital Hall at the Lynn Center<br />
for Fine Arts on the campus of Hanover<br />
College. This event is scheduled for<br />
Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m.<br />
The holidays wouldn’t be the same<br />
without the customary production of<br />
Handel’s Messiah. The Madison- Ohio<br />
Valley Community Chorus, Hanover College<br />
and the Louisville-Area Festival Orchestra<br />
combine to produce this moving<br />
musical event at Fitzgibbons Recital Hall<br />
at the Lynn Center for Fine Arts on the<br />
campus of Hanover College. This event is<br />
scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m.<br />
Visitors should come early and visit<br />
the downtown historic district shops and<br />
restaurants, all locally owned and operated<br />
and filled with holiday cheer.<br />
Madison hosts many events<br />
throughout the year and is just a 60-to-<br />
90-minute drive from Louisville, Cincinnati<br />
and <strong>Indiana</strong>polis. •<br />
Check out all of the holiday festivities at www.<br />
visitmadison.org.<br />
Dates for this year’s candlelight tour of homes<br />
are Nov. 23, 24 and 30 and Dec. 1. Tour<br />
hours are 5 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and 3 to 9<br />
p.m. on Saturdays. Tickets are $20 for adults<br />
and $5 for ages 5-12. Presale tickets are $15,<br />
with the discount ending two weeks before the<br />
tour begins. Tickets can be purchased online<br />
at nightsbeforechristmas.com or by calling<br />
(800) 559-2956 (a $1 handling fee is charged<br />
per ticket). Tickets may also be purchased the<br />
nights of the tour at the Visit Madison Visitors<br />
Center, 601 West First St.<br />
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Festive would be an understatement to describe the atmosphere<br />
that enveloped The Grand on Sept. 27. That’s when<br />
more than 200 men and women gathered to enjoy dinner<br />
and presentations by four finalists for the $100,000 grant<br />
in the Impact 100 initiative.<br />
Individuals or small groups that had donated $1,000 each<br />
voted on the non-profits’ worthwhile presentations. In a<br />
frenzy of confetti, Hope <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> was announced<br />
as the winner for four self-esteem boot camps over the<br />
next two years that will serve 200 local teenage girls. Hope<br />
Executive Director Angie Graf explained that suicide is the<br />
second leading cause of death among <strong>Indiana</strong> teens, a statistic<br />
that inspired Hope to create the detailed boot camps.<br />
The experience will give at-risk girls tools, confidence,<br />
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So great was the momentum of the spirit and impact of<br />
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over. Impact 100 was launched last year by the Women’s<br />
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Foundation of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>. It joins more than 100<br />
independent chapters throughout the country and locally<br />
invites non-profits in Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties<br />
to apply for the grant.<br />
Top: Awash in celebratory confetti was Angie Graf upon receiving the<br />
$100,000 grant. (Photo courtesy of Women’s Foundation of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>/<br />
Shawna Cherrie, photographer)<br />
Leaders of the four non-profit finalists: Bettye Dunham, Angie<br />
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At the voting box: David and Beth White, Miguel and Teah Williams-<br />
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HUNGER TO HOPE RAISES FUNDS, AWARENESS<br />
Colorful Hawaiian attire, hula dancers, and lei-clad celebrants decorated<br />
Kye’s II for an annual Hunger to Hope Gala to benefit the Jeffersonvillebased<br />
Center for Lay Ministries (CLM). One highlight of the dinner was the<br />
presentation of the Volunteer of the Year Award to Carol Dawson for her<br />
years of service plus a testimony from Bliss House alumna Meriah Pena.<br />
The event, including silent auction, raised thousands to support CLM’s<br />
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“Boats, Bourbon, and Barbecue” was the theme of the annual gathering of Leadership <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> alumni recently. The evening<br />
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in Jeffersonville. It was also an occasion to introduce four alumni who would be honored at this fall’s annual meeting: Kye Hoehn,<br />
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Saturday, Nov. 24<br />
Celebrate an old-fashioned<br />
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holiday shopping, music,<br />
festive lights and a parade in<br />
Historic Downtown Corydon.<br />
More Holiday Festivities in Harrison County<br />
Nov. 24: Corydon Christmas Extravaganza<br />
Nov. 24: Light Up Corydon Holiday Wine Tasting at Red, White & Blush<br />
Nov. 30: A Merry Country Christmas at Hayswood Nature Reserve<br />
Nov. 30 – Dec. 16: Hayswood Theatre presents “It’s a Wonderful Life”<br />
Dec. 8 and 15: Santa in the Cave at Squire Boone Caverns<br />
Dec. 1, 8 & 15: Santa at the Harrison County Discovery Center<br />
Dec. 8: Winter Wine Walk<br />
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November 30th<br />
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December 1st: Cookie Walk, 1pm-4pm.<br />
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square and get some of your Christmas shopping done too!<br />
After a day of cookies and shopping, stay for our annual<br />
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Wild eggs offers unique, delectable breakfast options<br />
Story by Jon Watkins<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 34
Breakfast, meaning quite literally<br />
“to break the fasting period of the<br />
prior night,” is the cornerstone of<br />
the daily meal trilogy. Along with<br />
its follow-up acts lunch and dinner, breakfast<br />
has its own assortment of associated<br />
foods, such as bacon, eggs, toast, orange<br />
juice, pancakes, waffes and hashbrowns.<br />
But for most of us, the daily fast-breaking<br />
meal consists of cereal grains in milk.<br />
However, for those of you in <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> who crave some excitement and<br />
creativity in your morning breakfast routine<br />
and want to send your taste buds on<br />
a wildly scrumptious journey, Chris Hamburger<br />
and his staff want to welcome you<br />
to the very aptly named Wild Eggs.<br />
A former director of golf and general<br />
manager at The Cardinal Club and<br />
former head golf professional at Valhalla<br />
Golf Club, Hamburger fell in love with<br />
the concept of Wild Eggs so much that<br />
he made the decision to “jump in and become<br />
a franchisee.” The owner/operator<br />
of the Wild Eggs in Jeffersonville says the<br />
golf business and the restaurant industry<br />
aren’t wildly different: “A lot of the<br />
principles are the same. It’s customer service;<br />
it’s cleanliness; it’s speed; it’s making<br />
people want to come back and be in<br />
your facility.” These core principles allow<br />
Hamburger and his staff to create an early<br />
morning to early afternoon dining experience<br />
that they are delighted to share.<br />
“This take, I would say, on breakfast<br />
is just so unique that it lures you back in<br />
time after time,” Hamburger said. And<br />
with a menu that can feel somewhat overwhelming<br />
to first-time customers due to<br />
an abundance of delectable options, Hamburger<br />
explained: “We can absolutely<br />
serve bacon and eggs, no problem. Pancakes<br />
and waffes? Sure, we can do all day<br />
long.” For the more adventurous customers,<br />
however, Hamburger said, “We take<br />
those ingredients that you would have in<br />
a normal breakfast scene and turn them<br />
upside down, and add our own chef-driven<br />
spin to them.”<br />
Examples of these creative concoctions<br />
include one of the more popular<br />
items: the Kalamity Katie’s Border Benedict.<br />
“It’s a Benedict with a whole lot of<br />
Southwest flair,” Hamburger said. The<br />
item includes green chili cheddar corn<br />
cakes, chorizo, pico de gallo, two poached<br />
eggs and queso fundido. Another popular<br />
dish is the Mr. Potato Head Casserole,<br />
which includes hashbrown potatoes<br />
baked with sour cream (with some diced<br />
onions, spices and cheddar-jack cheese),<br />
breakfast sausage and an egg cooked your<br />
way.<br />
The restaurant also offers a children’s<br />
menu. “We love to have the kids.<br />
Having the kids here is awesome; it livens<br />
up the place, for sure,” Hamburger said.<br />
There is even a gluten-free menu available<br />
upon request.<br />
One of the people at Wild Eggs ensuring<br />
that all the items on the various<br />
menus are consistently produced at the<br />
highest quality possible is kitchen manager<br />
Derek Nicholson. Having started with<br />
Wild Eggs nearly two years ago, Nicholson,<br />
who has 18 years experience in the<br />
restaurant industry, became the kitchen<br />
manager after starting out as head prep<br />
cook. “Consistency is number one. We<br />
want to have it the same here as you will<br />
downtown or in Greenwood or wherever<br />
you go,” he said. And “all of our ingredients<br />
are fresh: made in-house,” Hamburger<br />
added. “We fresh squeeze our orange<br />
juice in-house. We have a juicer; we juice<br />
two days a week, which is usually pretty<br />
cool; if it’s going on, the whole place<br />
smells like oranges.”<br />
Another key factor in the high level<br />
of consistency of Wild Eggs’ creations<br />
comes from their food distributors. “Everything<br />
we use is local. The founders<br />
were very high on making sure that we<br />
pulled key ingredients from as many local<br />
vendors as we could,” Hamburger<br />
said. Several of these distributors have<br />
locations throughout Kentucky, such as<br />
Pops’ Pepper Patch Inc. (in Louisville) and<br />
Weisenberger Mills (in Midway).<br />
Evan Patterson, a manager and bartender<br />
for Wild Eggs (with six years of<br />
industry experience), has seen the list of<br />
regular clientele grow over her two years<br />
with the company. “We have a ton of<br />
regular business. There’s so many people<br />
that come in here that I have a relationship<br />
with that have been coming in for<br />
two years and coming consistently, which<br />
is really really nice. I’ve gotten to know<br />
a lot of people from working here,” Patterson<br />
said. She noted that remembering<br />
preferred orders is one of the aspects of<br />
customer service that goes a long way to<br />
making customers’ experiences special. In<br />
regards to the kitchen, Nicholson said he<br />
goes to great lengths for those customers<br />
with dietary restrictions. “If somebody<br />
goes out of their way to tell me, ‘Hey, I<br />
have this issue,’ then I of course take it<br />
very seriously,” Nicholson said. He begins<br />
by trying to identify the base ingredients<br />
for whatever product is in question. After<br />
taking this step, he said he then tries to<br />
“build it from the ground up. Of course,<br />
fresh utensils, fresh cutting board if needed<br />
— just a clean area.”<br />
Combining both the front of house<br />
and kitchen’s dedication to customer service,<br />
consistency and freshly made delicacies,<br />
one can see the resulting recipe for<br />
a successful restaurant. However, with<br />
the restaurant’s success, Hamburger of-<br />
““Everything we use is local. The<br />
founders were very high on making sure<br />
that we pulled key ingredients from as<br />
many local vendors as we could.”<br />
- Chris Hamburger,<br />
Owner / Operator<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 35
fers another perspective and one final<br />
additional ingredient. “Being a business<br />
owner is more than just owning the business.<br />
Sure, you hope to turn a profit, and<br />
you hope to make some money, but you’re<br />
providing a service and an experience to<br />
guests. You’re providing jobs for a number<br />
of people that are depending on that<br />
income. You’re paying taxes and contributing<br />
back to the community in that regard.<br />
You’re making donations on behalf<br />
of the business. Being a business owner is<br />
so multifaceted, and people don’t realize<br />
all that goes into it and comes out of it. It’s<br />
more than just ‘Hey, I own the business.’<br />
And I think that’s an important thing that<br />
doesn’t get talked about enough.” •<br />
For more information on Wild Eggs, including<br />
locations, menus, and catering options, please<br />
visit: https://wildeggs.com<br />
Please note the disclaimer for gluten-free options<br />
posted on the menu on their website:<br />
“The dishes on this menu are prepared in a<br />
kitchen that uses wheat products. Our kitchen<br />
is not gluten-free. Therefore, cross contamination<br />
may occur.”<br />
Above: Owner Chris Hamburger and his family posed for a portrait that hangs inside Wild Eggs.<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 36
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Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 39
Making a Difference<br />
Who Benefits the Most?<br />
Story and Photos by Dr. Reggie Lyell<br />
Reprinted with permission from the blog Random Middle Age Musings<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 40<br />
Having recently returned from<br />
a short-term medical mission<br />
trip to eastern Ukraine, my<br />
mind is racing in a hundred<br />
directions. I am still feeling the effects<br />
of the adrenaline surge that comes from<br />
the return to routine after a wonderful<br />
experience. I am aware that we live in a<br />
society of superlatives. “Top ten” this,<br />
“most amazing” that. Everything is one<br />
of the best or one of the worst from some<br />
arbitrary ranking scale. I don’t want to call<br />
this a “life-changing” experience. At least,<br />
not yet. Only time will tell if our travel and<br />
experience with villagers and Ukrainians<br />
changes my life. But I do wonder who<br />
benefits the most.<br />
I know I have been impacted in a<br />
magnificent (there is another superlative)<br />
way. The chance to take something that<br />
I do every day and offer it to people in<br />
dire circumstances was a great opportunity.<br />
Someone else did the organizational<br />
work. Someone else took care of supplies<br />
and logistics. Someone else scheduled<br />
meals and travel. All I had to do was show<br />
up with my skill-set and offer advice. And<br />
I also received praise from the villagers.<br />
Undeserved praise, at that. When they<br />
would offer “Thank you” and “Please<br />
come back,” all I could do was convey to<br />
them that we would try. My psychological<br />
bank of purpose was filled up.<br />
The villagers and townspeople received<br />
some benefit. The medications<br />
we gave them would allow them to divert<br />
the cost of those meds to other basic<br />
needs, such as paying for a few meals for<br />
a month or two while not having to spend<br />
money at the pharmacy. The advice we<br />
gave (hopefully) bolstered their opinion<br />
of their local doctors and medical teams.<br />
We made every attempt to convince them<br />
that the care they were receiving was<br />
good, they just needed to follow through<br />
with the treatment plans and see their local<br />
healthcare clinicians. But probably, the<br />
most important thing we did was listen.<br />
Even if for a few minutes, we were someone<br />
new who would listen to their stories.<br />
In a setting where everyone has<br />
a horrible story of lost family, bombed<br />
homes, lack of money or other resources<br />
to procure daily necessities, no one wants<br />
to hear another sad story. We were able to<br />
listen and let people tell us the details, engaging<br />
(if through interpreters) with the<br />
patients and, because we did not have to<br />
use computer screens to document the encounter,<br />
we could look them in the eyes.<br />
They seemed to lighten up while telling<br />
their stories, no matter how horrific they<br />
sounded to us. It was old to them, but new<br />
to us. We would hang on every word. And<br />
everybody wants to be heard.<br />
The local church members, pastors
and missionaries carried the load on this<br />
trip. They organized, set up, and worked<br />
harder than we did. They speak the language<br />
and directed patients through our<br />
little mazes of clinic setups. They also<br />
were the ones who had to tell patients<br />
when we could not help them, were out<br />
of glasses or simply could not get to them<br />
because of the line. They took the brunt of<br />
a crowd’s anger. They also are the ones left<br />
with the diffcult task of follow-up.<br />
We were able to make notes on our<br />
forms for people that needed pastoral or<br />
social follow-ups. The local pastors took<br />
these forms and will check in on these<br />
people from time to time, trying to make<br />
sure they continue the care and recommendations<br />
we gave them.<br />
Hopefully, as we have all communicated<br />
with our local churches and friends<br />
back home, the awareness of the plight of<br />
these people will benefit those of you who<br />
have read about our adventure, prayed<br />
for us and listened to our excitement as<br />
we tried to convey our experiences. I<br />
hope that through our testimonies and<br />
stories as well as plans for future trips,<br />
we can motivate people we touch to participate<br />
with us. I encourage anyone reading<br />
this to avoid glossing over that news<br />
article on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict<br />
because you don’t know much about it. If<br />
you know me, ask me. Get motivated to<br />
look beyond baseball and football scores,<br />
Facebook and Pinterest, and our country’s<br />
politics. There’s a whole world out there<br />
struggling and we can help. You don’t<br />
have to pick up and go there. You can simply<br />
be aware, read and research, and most<br />
importantly, pray!<br />
The trip we made is nothing if it was<br />
not done for God’s glory and not ours. I<br />
would ask that you pray for three things.<br />
First, pray that in God’s time, the civil<br />
war will end and the economy of eastern<br />
Ukraine will be restored so that the people<br />
there can have resources for food, shelter<br />
and other basics for survival. Second, pray<br />
for our in-country church members, their<br />
pastors and missionaries that they may be<br />
strengthened and supported in their efforts.<br />
Third, pray that good fruit will come<br />
from our trip, whether to the villagers, the<br />
travelers or those who read about our adventure.<br />
Benefit comes in many forms. It<br />
is still too early to tell, but I would project<br />
that two to three years from now, I will say<br />
that I benefited the most. •<br />
Lyell has been a practicing family physician<br />
since 1994 who practices part-time family<br />
medicine with his wife, Gena, (a family nurse<br />
practitioner) as a part of Baptist Health Floyd<br />
in Corydon and serves as Medical Director<br />
of Informatics for a large hospital system in<br />
Kentucky and <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
But probably, the most important thing<br />
we did was listen. Even if for a few<br />
minutes, we were someone new who<br />
would listen to their stories.<br />
Pictured: (this page, top) Dr. Lyell and Dr. Jim Howard evaluate a Ukraian woman with hearing loss. (this page, bottom)<br />
An American medical team, along with interpreters and missionaries, pray before the start of the day’s clinic in eastern<br />
Ukraine.<br />
Pictured: (right hand page) A young Ukranian boy blows bubbles while his mother and grandmother discuss his health<br />
with Dr. Lyell and his interpreter Dimitri.<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 41
The holidays are a joyous time of<br />
the year for many people. ‘Tis the<br />
season for spending time with<br />
loved ones and reuniting with distant<br />
friends and family. It’s a time of gatherings<br />
and celebrations; a time of sharing<br />
love and joy. For some people, it’s their favorite<br />
time of the year. What’s not to love?<br />
The holiday season can be a challenging<br />
time of the year for many people,<br />
however. The holidays can bring on<br />
anxiety, depression, fatigue, sadness and<br />
loneliness. The hustle and bustle of the<br />
season may cause stress as individuals try<br />
to fit additional work into an already busy<br />
schedule. The pressure to make everything<br />
memorable and perfect may cause<br />
undue anxiety. Some people experience<br />
isolation while others are burdened with<br />
sad memories from past holiday seasons.<br />
It might be the first holiday season after<br />
losing a loved one. Dealing with the increased<br />
demands of the holidays may be<br />
diffcult for everyone, but it is an especially<br />
challenging time of the year for individuals<br />
with existing mental health issues.<br />
A common problem during the holiday<br />
season is depression and it may occur<br />
in people who typically do not have problems<br />
with depression. When people only<br />
experience these feelings during the holiday<br />
season it is called the holiday blues.<br />
The holiday blues affect some more than<br />
others. According to a survey by The National<br />
Alliance on Mental Health, 64% of<br />
people say they are affected by the holiday<br />
blues and 24% stated the holidays affect<br />
them a lot.<br />
Whether you experience the holiday<br />
blues or have an existing mental health issue<br />
that is more diffcult to manage during<br />
the holidays, following these tips will<br />
help you “handle the holidays.”<br />
1. Sleep<br />
Sleep is important all the time, but even<br />
more important during the upcoming<br />
months. The holidays are notorious for<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 42<br />
How to Handle the Holidays<br />
being busy and overwhelming so be<br />
sure you are getting enough rest.<br />
It’s okay to say no.<br />
If you don’t feel like<br />
going to the third<br />
party in two weeks<br />
then don’t. Taking<br />
care of yourself is very<br />
important.<br />
2. Stay Organized<br />
The holidays are jam packed with<br />
things to do. It’s easy to forget you<br />
drew your cousin’s name in the family<br />
gift exchange or that you volunteered<br />
to bake cookies for your work party.<br />
Make a point to write things down or<br />
put them in your phone. To-do lists<br />
over the holidays are life savers.<br />
3. Take it easy<br />
It’s okay to say no. If you don’t feel like<br />
going to the third party in two weeks<br />
then don’t. Taking care of yourself<br />
is very important. You should know<br />
your limit and if you’re getting close<br />
to it, take a step back and stay in for<br />
the night. Don’t feel obligated to make<br />
every single event. Prioritize activities<br />
and don’t overcommit.<br />
4. Exercise<br />
You should make an effort to exercise<br />
regularly, but even people who do may<br />
skip it during the busy holiday season.<br />
Allow time to be active. If you don’t<br />
typically exercise this is a great time<br />
to start. Even short walks are helpful.<br />
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Or get creative… try ice skating! Many<br />
communities will offer free holiday<br />
events that will encourage physical activity<br />
that may help you deal with the<br />
demands of the holidays.<br />
5. Budget<br />
If you know that money has been a<br />
stressor in the past then plan ahead<br />
this year. Set limits on your spending<br />
including gift giving, hosting expenses<br />
and travel. When January arrives, you<br />
will thank yourself!<br />
There are a number of ways to<br />
“handle the holidays.” Following these<br />
five tips will help you make the most of<br />
the holidays. If you don’t experience the<br />
holiday blues, be aware that someone you<br />
love might. Make an effort to check on a<br />
loved one during the holidays. Send them<br />
a card, give them a call, or send them a<br />
quick text. Let them know you are thinking<br />
of them. Happy Holidays! •<br />
PCS is located in Clarksville, Ind. and has<br />
been serving the community since 1959. The<br />
organization provides counseling services in<br />
the form of pastoral counseling, play therapy,<br />
trauma counseling, addictions therapy, music<br />
therapy, and more. There are also several<br />
outreach programs such as the older-adult<br />
community choir or the summer arts camp<br />
for kids. For more information, please visit the<br />
website at www.pcs-counseling.org or call our<br />
intake coordinator at 812-283-8383 x21.
‘Tis the Season<br />
Real Life Nutrition<br />
Easy tips to help prevent you from packing on pounds during the holidays<br />
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.<br />
I love the food, cooking<br />
and time spent with family<br />
and friends. For me, the<br />
holidays are a time to indulge and enjoy<br />
rich and flavorful dishes. With that said,<br />
I make it a point to maintain my active<br />
and healthy lifestyle throughout the entire<br />
holiday season. Doing so keeps my energy<br />
up, my stress level low and prevents any<br />
unwanted weight gain.<br />
On average, Americans gain 1 to<br />
2 pounds between Thanksgiving and<br />
Christmas. That might not seem like<br />
much, but research shows that most people<br />
fail to lose the extra weight and continue<br />
to gain year after year. Even the most<br />
avid exerciser can lose their will to get to<br />
the gym as exercise drops to the lowest<br />
point during the month of December.<br />
Believe it or not, you can enjoy the holiday<br />
season, and all of its delicious treats,<br />
without piling on a single pound. Try<br />
these holiday hacks and come Jan. 1 you<br />
will be ahead of the new year’s resolution<br />
weight-loss train.<br />
• Bring your own dish to the party.<br />
Holiday parties are one of the biggest<br />
diet challenges people face. To avoid<br />
the calorie-laden temptations, bring<br />
your own healthy dish. This will not<br />
only make you appear generous and<br />
kind, it’s your backup plan if there is<br />
nothing else to eat.<br />
• Don’t skip meals. Often, people will<br />
eat less to offset rich holiday dishes.<br />
Maintaining your normal diet will<br />
regulate your blood sugar and prevent<br />
you from gorging at the first<br />
sight of food.<br />
• Enjoy seasonal foods and skip dishes<br />
you can have year round. Seasonal<br />
dishes include sweet potato casserole,<br />
green bean casserole, pumpkin pie,<br />
bourbon balls, buckeyes and eggnog.<br />
• Have a two-plate limit. Fill up your<br />
first plate with fruits and vegetables<br />
— there’s always a vegetable tray<br />
somewhere and you can snag fruit<br />
from the cheese platter. Use your second<br />
plate for small portions of your<br />
favorite holiday must-haves.<br />
• Wear fitted clothing. Avoid wearing<br />
loose-fitting clothes and wear your<br />
regular-sized pants, dresses and tops.<br />
Loose-fitting clothing allows us to<br />
overeat without realizing we’ve had<br />
too much. Regular-sized clothing<br />
can start to feel uncomfortable and<br />
too tight, forcing you to stop before<br />
things get out of hand.<br />
• Stay hydrated. Have one to two full<br />
glasses of water before eating. This<br />
will promote hydration, satiety and<br />
digestion. It’s also ideal to have water<br />
before and in between alcoholic beverages.<br />
Doing so will help prevent a<br />
hangover and drinking in excess.<br />
• Take your time. Don’t be so quick to<br />
eat. Socialize and enjoy the company<br />
around you.<br />
• Avoid socializing in the kitchen,<br />
near the buffet or appetizer area. This<br />
will help minimize mindless eating.<br />
About the Author<br />
Maji Koetter, Ali, MS,<br />
RD, LD, CD, is a<br />
licensed registered<br />
dietitian at Baptist<br />
Health Floyd specializing<br />
in diabetes and<br />
weight management.<br />
She uses a real-life<br />
approach to nutrition<br />
when counseling her<br />
clients, and encourages<br />
them to strive<br />
for progress not perfection. She is passionate<br />
about helping everyone find their own way to<br />
living their happiest and healthiest lives<br />
Spinach-Pear Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette<br />
Do you need a healthy dish to bring to a party, or something to enjoy for yourself? Try this salad<br />
— it’s a staple in my household and perfect for this time of year.<br />
Yield: 12 servings<br />
Ingredients<br />
Serving Size: 2/3 cup salad<br />
Instructions<br />
2 Bosc pears, cored and thinly sliced<br />
1 (6-ounce) package fresh baby spinach<br />
3 tablespoons water<br />
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar<br />
1 teaspoon sugar<br />
5 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil<br />
1½ teaspoons stone-ground mustard<br />
¾ teaspoon salt<br />
½ teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper<br />
¼ cup (1 ounce) shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese<br />
Combine pear slices and spinach in a large bowl. Combine<br />
water and the next six ingredients (through pepper),<br />
stirring with a whisk. Drizzle vinaigrette over salad<br />
and toss gently to coat. Sprinkle with cheese.<br />
Nutritional Information: Calories 52, Fat 2.7g, Saturated<br />
Fat 0.7g, Monounsaturated Fat 1.6g, Polyunsaturated<br />
fat 0.2g, Protein 1.7g, Carbohydrate 6.1g, Fiber<br />
1.4g, Cholesterol 2mg, Iron 0.8mg, Sodium 215mg,<br />
Calcium 58mg<br />
Image: Getty Images<br />
Recipe by: Cooking Light<br />
Nov/Dec <strong>2018</strong> • 43
A Season of Giving<br />
A Thoughtful Gift<br />
D<br />
orrel Harrison didn’t know Dr.<br />
Bill McDonald and his family,<br />
but when the Scottsburg artisan<br />
learned about the extraordinary<br />
life and tragic death of the Hardinsburg<br />
veterinarian, he knew he wanted to do<br />
something for the McDonald family.<br />
After Dr. Bill, 47, died Jan. 29 in an accident<br />
at his home, there was an outpouring<br />
of accounts of the doctor’s selfless service<br />
to his community and family. When<br />
a friend related some of these stories to<br />
Harrison, he was moved to reach out to<br />
the McDonalds.<br />
That is when he thought about the Luke<br />
family and what he had done for them.<br />
“Two years ago, I was a Santa Claus<br />
to the Lukes in East Hoosick, New York,”<br />
said Harrison. “Burt Luke, a longtime<br />
neighbor in upstate New York, died in<br />
the spring of that year. The Lukes had<br />
six children and I had all of them in my<br />
health classes.”<br />
Harrison, formerly of Hoosick, retired in<br />
2000 after 33 years teaching and moved to<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> with his wife, Kathy, to be closer<br />
to their son, a UPS pilot.<br />
When he heard that his former students<br />
had lost their father, Harrison wanted to<br />
do something for them — and he knew<br />
just the thing. “Shortly after moving to<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>, I had begun crafting three-dimensional<br />
barn plaques out of recycled<br />
wood,” he said.<br />
That, he decided, would be something<br />
the Lukes — a farm family — would like.<br />
He created six framed plaques with the<br />
siblings’ memories of their farm and barn.<br />
And just before Christmas, his son took<br />
the gifts to New York on a UPS flight.<br />
“It was such a blessing to extend my<br />
love,” Harrison said.<br />
So when he was looking for something<br />
to do for the McDonald family, Harrison<br />
remembered these earlier gifts.<br />
“Even though I didn’t know the McDonalds,<br />
from what I had heard about them, I<br />
decided they would appreciate plaques in<br />
Dr. Bill’s memory,” he said.<br />
On May 16, Dorrel and Kathy Harrison<br />
met with the McDonalds, and in an informal<br />
ceremony, presented plaques that picture<br />
the veterinarian clinic, which opened<br />
in 1995, shortly after Bill McDonald graduated<br />
from Purdue University.<br />
“Even without knowing him,” Harrison<br />
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Artist honors veterinarian with handmade plaques<br />
said, he realized from stories of Dr. Bill’s<br />
dedication to his patients and their owners<br />
that “the practice and building must<br />
have meant a great deal to him.<br />
“Every building has a story that consists<br />
of many hours and activities which<br />
take place within its walls,” Harrison told<br />
them. “I am saddened at your family’s<br />
loss and no words can express your sorrow<br />
and feelings. My prayer is that this<br />
tangible framed plaque of Bill’s practice<br />
will remind you of those special memories<br />
(of times) which you were blessed<br />
with while Bill was with you.”<br />
Plaques were presented to Dr. McDonald’s<br />
wife, Lindsay; his parents, Jim and<br />
Barbara McDonald; and siblings, Susan<br />
Umpleby and Bob McDonald. There was<br />
also a plaque for his brother, David Mc-<br />
Donald, who was not able to attend the<br />
Story by Sara Combs<br />
Photo by Karen Hanger<br />
“My prayer is that this tangible framed plaque<br />
of Bill’s practice will remind you of those<br />
special memories (of times) which you were<br />
blessed with while Bill was with you.”<br />
- Dorrel Harrison<br />
ceremony.<br />
The family received the plaques with<br />
gratitude and plan to see that each of Bill’s<br />
children, Jacob, Madelyn and Joseph, will<br />
have one when they are adults.<br />
Besides being sole owner of McDonald<br />
Veterinarian Clinic, Dr. Bill was part<br />
owner and active in South Central Collision<br />
Center, a family-owned operation.<br />
He also, with his father and brother, Bob,<br />
worked a 1,500-acre beef cattle farm. He<br />
served on the local school board; was active<br />
at Paoli Christian Church; and volunteered<br />
at the Orange County Humane<br />
Society, <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> Animal Rescue,<br />
the 4-H Club, Paoli High School FFA and<br />
the school’s SuperMileage Club. •<br />
Pictured: Dorrel and Kathy Harrison, Bob, Barbara, and<br />
Lindsay McDonald, Susan McDonald Umpleby and Jim<br />
McDonald
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Everyday Adventures<br />
All I Want For Christmas<br />
If you’ve already bought your child’s<br />
Christmas present, do not ask them<br />
what they want. You’re just setting<br />
both of you up for disappointment.<br />
Take, for example, the year my parents<br />
bought me a dirt bike. We didn’t have<br />
much money when I was a kid, so this<br />
was a huge present. They knew it would<br />
absolutely blow my mind.<br />
That’s why mom felt confident<br />
enough to ask me the question you should<br />
never ask your child, “If you could have<br />
anything you want for Christmas, what<br />
would it be?”<br />
Surely I would say a dirt bike. What<br />
self-respecting, elementary-aged boy living<br />
in the country would say anything<br />
else? A motorcycle would have be the answer<br />
to my wildest dreams.<br />
Except it wasn’t. I said I wanted a<br />
horse. A black horse.<br />
She did say I could have anything,<br />
right? Why not a horse? I’d watched<br />
enough westerns as a kid to know that a<br />
horse would be my ticket to adventure,<br />
stick with me as a faithful friend and impress<br />
the ladies. What more could I ask<br />
for?<br />
Even though it’s been almost forty<br />
years since that conversation I can still remember<br />
the look of crushing disappointment<br />
on mom’s face. She said something<br />
to the effect, “Oh, a horse.” One foolish<br />
question had completely drained her excitement<br />
for giving me this incredible gift.<br />
But that’s what you get for asking.<br />
After all, I was a crazy kid. I didn’t know<br />
what I really wanted. When I walked in<br />
on Christmas Eve and saw the motorcycle<br />
resting on its kickstand, I flipped out. Of<br />
course, this is what I wanted for Christmas.<br />
I just didn’t know it was an option.<br />
In reality a horse would have been<br />
a terrible gift. We didn’t have a barn or<br />
anywhere to keep it. I would have had<br />
nowhere to ride it, and we couldn’t have<br />
afforded to care for it. To top it all off, I’d<br />
never even been on a horse. I had no idea<br />
if I would actually enjoy it.<br />
To be honest, unless I was foiling<br />
train robbers or cattle rustlers on a regular<br />
basis, I would have probably grown bored<br />
with a horse within a month.<br />
The dirt bike, however, was exactly<br />
what I needed. We had plenty of space to<br />
ride it, a shed to keep it dry and it was really<br />
just a step up from a bicycle, which<br />
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I’d had plenty of experience riding. Once<br />
I jumped on that dirt bike I realized I was<br />
born to be wild and spent hours proving it<br />
by tearing through the woods and gravel<br />
roads near my house.<br />
Sometimes that Christmas reminds<br />
me of my prayer life. I ask for God things<br />
all the time that I probably don’t even really<br />
want. I fall in love with the idea of<br />
a certain prayer request, but God knows<br />
the reality would be quite different. So<br />
my prayers seem to go unanswered or the<br />
answer I get is a big, fat no. Then, somewhere<br />
down the road, I see what God was<br />
up to and it’s always way better. I’ve seen<br />
this happen when praying about job opportunities,<br />
houses, relationships and so<br />
much more.<br />
It’s not just that God gives me what<br />
I need instead of what I want, though He<br />
does, but He also understands what I really<br />
want more than I do. He knows me<br />
better than I know myself.<br />
Other times I don’t see what God’s<br />
up to. My unanswered prayers are painful<br />
and confusing, yet, that’s when I have<br />
to remember who I’m talking to, a God<br />
who is infinitely good and who I can always<br />
trust to work out things for my good<br />
in the end.<br />
It’s kind of like that first Christmas<br />
2,000 years ago. Nobody wanted a baby<br />
in a manger. They wanted a general, a<br />
military and political leader who would<br />
overthrow the Roman government and<br />
restore Israel to freedom and independence.<br />
But God had something better in<br />
mind. A Savior. Someone who wouldn’t<br />
rescue his people from the Romans but<br />
from the crippling weight of sin. Someone<br />
who didn’t come to carry a sword but<br />
to die on a cross. Someone who knows<br />
that the deepest desire of our hearts is to<br />
love and be loved by God.<br />
I’m thankful that God knows what I<br />
really want, and loves me enough to give<br />
That’s why mom felt<br />
confident enough to<br />
ask me the question<br />
you should never ask<br />
your child:<br />
“If you could have<br />
anything you want<br />
for Christmas, what<br />
would it be?”<br />
it to me. Maybe that’s what the Bible is<br />
talking about when it says, “Take delight<br />
in the Lord, and he will give you your<br />
heart’s desires” (Psalm 37:4 NLT).<br />
This Christmas I may buy myself<br />
a gift, a little plastic horse, to remind me<br />
that the things I think I want aren’t always<br />
all they’re cracked up to be and to make<br />
me thankful for a God who always gives<br />
me the better gift. •<br />
Image: anakondasp/ shutterstock.com<br />
Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and<br />
dad who loves the quirky surprises God sends<br />
his way every day. You can catch up with Jason<br />
on his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com or on<br />
Twitter at www.twitter.com/jasondbyerly.
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