Blue Ridge Parkway, Home Remedies, The Show Must Go Online, Summertime Story, Mini Book Club, Reconnecting with Old Friends

Lisa’s Adventure Club: Blue Ridge Parkway (0:00:00) Are you ready for one of the most beautiful road trips the U.S. has to offer? For our national parks segment this week, we are featuring “America’s Favorite Drive”—Blue Ridge Parkway National Park. This nearly 500-mile-longpark connects Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. To help us discover the wonders of this beautiful parkway is the park’s head of partnerships and public relations Leesa Brandon. Managing Pain with Home Remedies (0:13:24) 20 percent of American adults suffer from chronic pain. That’s insane! Whether you experience chronic pain or not, we have all experienced pain in some capacity. It’s especially hard to treat it while we’re stuck in our homes. But, when it comes to physical pain, there are loads of things we can do right in our homes to help alleviate some of our discomfort. Dr. Charles Kim is a certified specialist in physical and pain medicine and rehabilitation at NYU Langone Medical Center. He’s been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, and TIME magazine. Dr. Kim is here to give us all the tips and tricks to successfully treating pain at home. The Show Must Go Online (0:36:04) It’s not a surprise to anyone that children haven’t been going to school for a while. At first your kids were probably pretty excited for what seemed like an early summer. However, there were a lot of activities and events, like school theatre performances, that got canceled along with classes. So, are programs and our kids just supposed to throw in the towel and do nothing this whole year? That’s not what Denver Casado thinks. He’s a composer and lyrist for musicals that recently published the all online show that any theatre program could do: “The Show Must Go Online”. Summertime Story (0:50:36) By now we’ve all noticed the changes. The weather’s getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and online school is starting to wind down. But even though we know summer is coming, with everything being so crazy in the world right now, I’ve noticed that it’s been harder to really get into that summertime mood. So, we thought we’d invite our favorite storyteller, Sam Payne of the Appleseed, on to remind us what summer is all about. Mini Book Club: Escapist Books (1:07:05) Rachel Wadham, of BYU Radio’s World’s Awaiting, talks with Lisa and Richie about the best books to read when you trying to get away. Reconnecting with Old Friends (1:25:14) Despite life's variability, the need for friends is always constant. Sometimes we have friendships that last a lifetime, sometimes we have friendships that only last a season. Now have you ever felt the need, or want, to reconnect with an old friend who you haven’t seen in a while? How do you even go about doing that? Well today, we have Dr. Suzanne Degges-White, a counselor, professor and author, here to share advice on how to rekindle old friendships.