Protecting Your Ears, What's in Your Playlist, Family Game Night, Language's in Children's Novels, Christmas in Wales, The 13th Season and Resilience

Protecting Your Ears (0:00:00) For most of us, when we get excited about something, we get loud. When our favorite song comes on, we turn it up! When we’re at a football game, we scream our lungs out for our team! I think we all can recognize these as noisy experiences, but what about when we do less exciting things like turning on the blender? Or trying to hold a conversation at a busy restaurant? Whether we recognize it or not, we are constantly surrounded by things that are hurting our hearing. It’s no wonder that studies have shown that approximately 15% of American adults (37.5 million) aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing. So what can we do about this? David Owen, author of “Volume Control,” joins us on the show to talk about the loud world we live in and what we can do to protect ourselves.  What’s in your Playlist (0:17:34) With so much diversity in music, and so much access to different artists, sounds, and genres, we are now more than ever able to find a music taste that reflects our personalities. People love to talk about, sing along to, and blast the car stereo with their favorite tunes. Music brings people together. As 2019 has come to an end, different music platforms like Spotify have given us our “year in review” for what we listened to. As we take time to reflect on what our music says about us, it is fun to remember certain bands and artists that defined our year. Here to discuss with us what our taste in music means is Kacy Faulconer, a former writing professor and friend of the show. Family Game Night (0:36:46) Friend of The Lisa Show Carrie Ann Rhodes shares ways to make your next game night the best one yet. Languages in Children’s Novels (0:50:36) Are you a fan of fantasy novels? There’s nothing quite like getting lost in a world unlike our own and meeting colorful and mythological creatures. Here to talk to us about her own experience creating such a fantasy world and on where she got her inspiration for creating her own mystical world is Carolina Ugaz-Moran, author of Alin