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editor-in-chief Amy S. Johnson ajohnson@madisonessentials.com
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After Should...................................48 Mary Landry...................................32 Privacy, Technology, and Liberty.....................................34
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Livable Landscapes......................60 Milwaukee Road Depot.................40
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Lori Czajka, Debora Knutson
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Anal Glands....................................38
Cassandra Bowers, Broyles & Company CPAs, LLC, Sandy Eichel, Jeanne Engle, Dave Fidlin, Kyle Jacobson, Elissa Koppel, Lauri Lee, Emily Locke, Krystle Engh Naab, Lori Scarlett, DVM, Liz Wessel, Elizabeth H. Winston PhD, Joan W. Ziegler
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Get Outside and Play!..................56
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Four Lakes Veterinary Clinic.........10
shopping Community Pharmacy.....................6
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Finding Balance............................18 Isthmus Wellness............................14 Mental Health in the Current Political Climate.............................26
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Watch for the next issue May/June 2019. Cover photograph— Taken at Summit Strength & Fitness by Eric Tadsen. Photographs on page 3: top—Taken at Blue Agave Restaurant and Lounge by Eric Tadsen. middle—Provided by Octopi Brewing. bottom— Provided by Motorless Motion Bicycles.
from the editor I’m writing during January’s snowstorms and record cold snap, which have led to a common satirical theme in communication exchanges: why do we live in Wisconsin? While I’m not a fan of shoveling, dangerous roads, and lifethreatening air temperatures, I never doubt that Wisconsin is where I will live my best life because of the passion I’ve been able to share with others regarding where and how we live. This is our well-being issue, which is appropriate timing because many people are in the thick of pursuing New Year’s resolutions to achieve their best lives. And, hence, we’re featuring businesses whose goals are to help you do just that. Isthmus Wellness utilizes ancient Eastern therapies to help clients strengthen their body-mind-spirit connections. Community Pharmacy, an employeemanaged pharmacy, strives to help their customers achieve better health. And not only do we once again have Dr. Lori Scarlett sharing her expertise on keeping our pets well, we are including an additional article about her own practice, Four Lakes Veterinary Clinic, where caring for your pets is always the resolution. Helping people achieve their best physical health and, in conjunction, the other areas of wellness that go with it, we introduce you to three of the area’s best: Amy Sanborn of MadPower Training Center, Keith Kubiesa of Summit Strength & Fitness, and vitality coach Sue Hogg. While they all have the common goal of guiding clients to their best selves, their approaches vary, which is representative of the range of options available to accommodate the different needs and wishes of individuals. While I wish that by the time you read this the discussion has changed, I’m skeptical the constant political rhetoric will be ending anytime soon. It seems that no matter where you turn, it’s there, and it can be overwhelming no matter what your views. In an attempt to counter the negative effects, Madison Essentials contributor Elizabeth H. Winston, PhD, has some suggestions. With our continued positive countering, we’re happy to introduce you to our next community standout: Mary Landry. For long-time readers, you may recall Mary from the Share the Health series. We were so impressed by the organization and Mary’s efforts in it, we wanted to learn more about her own story. To round out the issue, we have our regularly featured topics. Articles include Blue Agave Restaurant and Lounge, artist Andrew Roth, Breathe For Change, Milwaukee Road Depot, livable landscapes, retiree tax strategies, breweries, playing outside, and the next contributions from the ACLU of Wisconsin and Sandy Eichel. Stay safe, keep warm, and think spring!
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COMMUNITY PHARMACY COMMUNITY WELLNESS SHOP by Dave Fidlin Across the country, from one town to the next, local pharmacies have become a dying breed, seemingly crowded out by a small group of national chains. But at 47 years of age, Community Pharmacy is bucking the trend as a locally rooted, independent store with a range of offerings for the mind, body, and spirit. When asked how Madison’s Community Pharmacy—and its Middleton-based satellite location, Community Wellness Shop—has stayed the course in an ever-changing retail climate, Scott Chojnacki, a 25-year veteran employee, credits a hyper-focused, customercentric approach. First and foremost, Scott says Community Pharmacy and Community Wellness Shop serve as resources to the people of Madison and surrounding communities. “We want to make sure that every customer that comes in has an easy opportunity to talk with one of us,” Scott says. “We want to actively have that conversation, and we want to be available to them.” Scott says Community Pharmacy and Community Wellness Shop are able to deliver on the mission by having a sizable experienced staff. Between the two locations, the cooperative has 25 employees, including 4 pharmacists at the downtown Madison location. 6 | madison essentials
“We’ve made a decision to have a large staff because what we do is built on customer service,” Scott says. “We’re there to show [customers] the options. If they’re curious about something in particular, then we can talk more about it.” The employee-managed cooperative’s overarching mission of promoting better health is as true today as it was when The University of Wisconsin– Madison Wisconsin Student Association first opened the doors with a staff of two pharmacists and a small group of volunteers. Community Wellness Shop opened in October 2015 as a sign of the cooperative’s evolution. Because parking can be at a premium in the heart of Madison, the suburban spot was designed to offer more convenience. “It’s one of the smartest things we’ve ever done,” Scott says of opening the west-end Middleton location, which came to be after the cooperative assumed a prior vitamin shop’s space. “The support for this location has exceeded our expectations.” Because of its business model, Community Pharmacy and Community Wellness Center ditch corporate conventions, meaning there are no outright owners, managers, or other
“We’ve made a decision to have a large staff because what we do is built on customer service.” titles. The employees adopt an allhands-on-deck approach, and most rotate between the dual locations.
have followed suit. The original Madison location continues to offer a full-service prescription pharmacy service.
“I’m a big believer in that kind of workplace,” Scott says. “Everyone is involved in the decision-making. We do everything a manager would do, but we do it collectively.”
Both of the cooperative’s locations also offer up a rich product line that includes a range of herbs, supplements, natural body-care products, homeopathic remedies, flower essences, natural oils, and sexual health products—all with environmental responsibility in mind. “We try and offer it all,” Scott says. “There are lines of skin-care products that are edible because that’s how simple they are.”
Scott says, employee tenure typically is long lived, which benefits customers walking through either of the cooperative’s sets of doors. “We have a lot of experience on our staff, and with that has come a lot of knowledge. We want to retain people that have all of this knowledge.” As Community Pharmacy and Community Wellness Shop have evolved, Scott says the product lines
One of the specialties at the two locations is the full range of herbs. A passage on the cooperative’s website describes how important the offering is: “They make our staff’s hearts flutter and our brains click into overdrive.” madisonessentials.com
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Community Pharmacy and Community Wellness Shop proclaim to offer Madison’s largest selection of bulk dried, herbs—many with medicinal as well as culinary applications. There’s a range of distributors because of the cooperative’s emphasis on locally grown, organic, and wild-harvested herbs. Another product on the stores’ shelves that has been growing attention is CBD oil. CBD (cannabidiol) is 1 of more than 100 phytocannabinoids within the plant category. CBD oil comes from a hemp extract and serves as a nutritional supplement found within a plant’s flowers, leaves, and stems. Jennifer Helmer, an herbalist working out of Community Pharmacy and Community Wellness Center, says there has been a bounty of confusion on CBD oil as its popularity has gone in an upward trajectory. Although it’s a hemp extract, Jennifer says, “It is not the same as hemp-seed oil.”
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In a further demonstration of how the cooperative aims to be a community resource, Jennifer says she and other staffers are on hand to share information about CBD oil so consumers can make informed decisions. “We take a lot of questions. There’s been a lot of hype.” Part of the reason for CBD oil’s growing popularity is its reported benefits, which have included relief against physical pain, anxiety, and reducing the risk of many diseases. Jennifer, Scott, and other staffers within the cooperative are quick to point out CBD oil is not a one-sizefits-all treatment, though they happily field questions and point consumers toward other resources that can clear the fog of confusion. “We’ve received some really amazing feedback from customers,” Scott says. “There are some phenomenal success stories out there. But there’s not a thing that we can sell that works for everyone.”
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Jennifer, who proudly proclaims “plants are my passion,” says she offers some solid recommendations whenever the topic of CBD oil comes up in a conversation with a customer. Whether it’s CBD oil or any other hemp-derived product, Jennifer says it’s imperative consumers seek out reputable companies with high-quality-assurance standards. This process would include proof of third-party testing and the willingness to provide a certificate of analysis for the product if asked. “We try to be very cautious,” Jennifer says. “We advocate people move forward with caution. We try and be very ethical. That’s important to us.” Dave Fidlin is a freelance writer who has a special affinity for Madison. Dave’s career spans nearly 20 years, and he’s grateful for the opportunity to learn something new each day through his professional pursuits. Phototgraphs by Eric Tadsen.
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Four Lakes Veterinary Clinic Defining Excellence in Pat ient Care by Krystle Engh Naab
While Dr. Lori Scarlett, DVM, started out wanting to be a human doctor, she says, “I didn’t like the guys in my class, so I went into research and received a master’s in genetics. But I missed people contact when I worked in a lab. Then when my fiancé got me a cat—which 10 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
I never had growing up and always wanted, but my parents weren’t pet people—I thought to myself, ‘I can work with pets for the rest of my life.’” After graduating from Michigan State University in 1995, Dr. Scarlett worked
in Durham, North Carolina, for 11 years until her husband, Cameron, was offered a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Scarlett then worked at McFarland Animal Hospital until she opened her own practice in 2013. If you’re thinking about being a
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vet, she says, “Being a vet is not only loving animals, but you really have to like people. If you don’t like people, then this is not the field for you.” Four Lakes Veterinary Clinic has always been known for exceptional patient care, and it’s now even more appealing after an expansion and renovation by dm architecture. Dr. Scarlett explains that the new layout affords both staff and clients to enjoy a flow from waiting area to exam rooms, one side for cats and the other for dogs. “The previous space was great when it was just me, when we were small, but as we got busier, we’d have to put big dogs in the x-ray room when they were dropped off because there was no space for them.” The expansion was completed in July 2018.
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After the renovation, Dr. Scarlett also added a new associate veterinarian, Anne McClanahan, DVM, a local graduate of UW–Madison. Dr. Scarlett says, “Before, I was limited and couldn’t take on additional clients. Now we can because of the expansion.” Having separate dog and cat exam rooms accommodates their varied sizes and needs. Cat rooms are smaller with a cat tower, while dog rooms are bigger and have the option of lowering madisonessentials.com
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“We try to stay on top of the latest information, like a new sedative for cats. We want to provide the best customer care and the love for the animals.”
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the exam table if more space is needed. Pheromones are in the exam rooms to help relax four-legged patients. The rooms also feature patient pictures from Dr. Scarlett’s Fill the Frames contest each February. People can submit their pet pictures to be voted on for display in the clinic. The clinic has an in-house lab, pharmacy, x-rays, dentals, and surgery area, and the treatment area is also separated by species. A new, bigger reception area allows the clinic to house foster kittens and cats from Angel’s Wish Pet Adoption and Resource Center, and Monona Bakery & Eatery (next door) provides baked goods for clients. And you’ll meet Charlie, the clinic cat ambassador, adopted from the Dane County Humane Society. Dr. Scarlett says, “Charlie is a sweet guy—just don’t brush him!” He commands everyone’s attention and adoration. The clinic became a gold-certified Cat Friendly Practice (CFP) in 2014, and Dr. Scarlett has to go through accreditations 12 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
every year and follow a checklist to make the clinic cat friendly. She also goes to feline conferences to learn new methods and information that lends to the techniques used to be a CFP. And recently, the clinic earned its Fear Free certification. “It has made a huge difference. The dogs aren’t so nervous coming in. I will have the dogs come in for ‘happy visits’ to the clinic. Dogs step on the scale, get some treats, then go out, and this helps them to get desensitized to what’s happening. The cats do really well with canned wet food or cat nip in the room, and if the cats or dogs are really nervous, we do have antianxiety medications to give while they are home to make the trip to the vet much easier.” The clinic also has American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) accreditation. Not all vet clinics have this, and to be eligible, an AAHA representative will do a thorough evaluation, reviewing the practice protocols, medical equipment, facility, and client services before awarding an accreditation.
As a writer for Madison Essentials, Dr. Scarlett discusses many pet-care and well-being topics, like proper pet diet to avoid overweight animals. Many people don’t recognize what a normal-weight dog should look like. Dr. Scarlett gives an example of a Labrador that is the perfect weight with a slim waste—you can feel his ribs. She asked the owner if people think the dog is too skinny, and the reply was, “All the time.” It’s because many dogs are overweight and owners just don’t recognize it. Another example of Dr. Scarlett’s dedication to education is handouts on “What to Expect this Month” for kittens and puppies, similar to what expectant parents would get. And new pet owners are given at least an hour appointment time to discuss pet care. Dr. Scarlett also has handouts for adult and senior pets so owners know what to look for and expect as their pets age. Four Lakes participates in a summer dog wash to benefit WisCARES, a joint
project with the vet school and UW– Madison School of Social Work, which provides free basic pet care to lowincome/home-insecure people. They have also raised money for Pets for Vets, a program that helps get service dogs for veterans, and when there was a hurricane in Florida, Four Lakes took in supplies for Key to Happiness Rescue to deliver them to the state. Four Lakes has won Best of Monona, Star of Madison, and Best of Madison. “Between the two main vet technicians, there’s over 30 years of experience,” says Dr. Scarlett. “We try to stay on top of the latest information, like a new sedative for cats. We want to provide the best customer care and the love for the animals.” Krystle Engh Naab is a freelance writer and copy editor for Madison Essentials. Photograph by Barbara Wilson
A program unique to the clinic is a free vaccination for life program. Dr. Scarlett says some people think their pet only needs to go to the clinic for vaccinations, so yearly exams are skipped when vaccinations aren’t due. She wants to see dogs and cats annually to assess health and diagnose disease. So if people pay a one-time enrollment fee and then visit within 30 days of the annual exam date each year, they will only pay for the wellness exam while the core vaccines are at no charge. Within two years, people recoup the enrollment fee. Dr. Scarlett especially appreciates this incentive for senior pets.
Krystle Engh Naab
FOUR LAKES VETERINARY CLINIC 4504 Monona Drive Madison, WI 53716 (608) 819-6750 fourlakesvet.com
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Isthmus Wellness A walk into Isthmus Wellness’ facility within an office complex on Madison’s west side quickly sets a zen tone. Gentle music, soft aesthetics, dim lighting, and fragrant aroma provide the backdrop for a center designed to be a welcome, safe, and soothing space of sanctuary. With a licensed staff of six massage therapists and five acupuncturists— in addition to a customer-focused front office staff—Isthmus Wellness has been helping people from Madison and beyond with a range of treatment options. The center’s goal, as outlined in their mission statement, is to bring ancient Eastern therapies into Western culture in an effort to strengthen and bring into true harmony a body-mindspirit connection. Licensed acupuncturist Chandon Williams owns the center, which features such amenities as seven treatment rooms, an infrared sauna, massage chair, and an ionic footbath. Chandon, who has 15 years experience in natural healing, says the center operates with an individual-focused 14 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
approach, meaning there is no one-sizefits-all, cookie-cutter formula. “At Isthmus Wellness, we want to challenge the status quo of what complete healing and healthcare looks like,” Chandon says in a nearly fourminute video message posted on the center’s website. Acupuncture and therapeutic massage are two of the most well-known therapies in Eastern medicine. However, Tracy Hammerstrom, who works as a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist at Isthmus Wellness, says the techniques can extend to even greater lengths.
BY DAVE FIDLIN work services in addition to acupuncture and massage. Some of the offerings, such as energy work, are lesser known but have proven beneficial to some clients. Energy work, in particular, promotes relaxation and, according to experts, has been linked to helping bring new insights and solutions to particular situations a person might be grappling with on a daily basis. The healing techniques within energy work are designed to balance a person’s emotions by helping them feel more grounded and less impacted from stressful life events.
“Acupuncture is just one tool that acupuncturists use,” says Tracy, who received four years of schooling before joining Isthmus Wellness two years ago. The list of remedies offered within the center also includes cupping therapy, Chinese herbal medicine, essential oils, and nutritional supplements.
In a nod to Eastern medicine’s allencompassing impact, the techniques within Maya abdominal therapy show how treatments might bring relief to people suffering with internal ailments. The practice, known more precisely as the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®, is designed to help improve a person’s blood and lymph flow based on the positioning of specific internal organs.
The treatments can be realized through a range of specific services, including Maya abdominal therapy and energy
Tracy says people come to Isthmus Wellness for a full gamut of reasons, including allergies, autoimmune
symptoms, digestive symptoms, food intolerance, headaches, hormonal imbalances, infertility, menopause, mental health, neurological disorders, pregnancy care, sports medicine, stress management, and traumatic head injury. No two people and no two conditions are alike, and for this reason, Tracy says Isthmus Wellness emphasizes a custom, collaborative approach as different treatment options are discussed and explored. “It really depends what people are looking for,” she says. “We can do it all.” The center’s values statement, prominently displayed in the main lobby area, vividly displays a set of guiding principles. “We actively LISTEN to our clients’ concerns and needs, and work with as much FLEXIBILIY to serve their care. We are HONEST about how we can help and make referrals, whenever possible, to support their healing journey. All of our providers take every opportunity as a team to share HELPFUL information and
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support each other to make sure each of our clients receive the most appropriate and effective recommendations possible from the deepest level of INTEGRITY. As individuals, we do everything in our power to ensure we are at our HIGHEST POTENTIAL through self-care and personal development, so that we can effectively, and compassionately, care for our clients and our community.” Tracy says the vision statement was assembled with thought and care before the collection of words and concepts
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were displayed in the lobby. “We all came up with that as a team.” Clients visiting Isthmus Wellness typically book 60-minute sessions, though first-time consultations require a greater 90-minute time commitment since the groundwork is being laid and treatment options are explored. Regardless of the specific treatment sought, Tracy says one uniform goal is shared throughout. “We want this to be a place where you can set your worries aside for 60 minutes.”
While the benefits and overarching concepts of Eastern medicine have been growing in popularity on this side of the globe, Tracy says many of the principles embedded within the ancient techniques still remain mired in confusion and misinformation. Speaking to acupuncture in general, Tracy says, “It’s natural. It stimulates your body and helps it to regulate and heal. It gets it back on track. I personally think everybody can benefit from it because it’s so powerful and effective.”
Eastern medicine might be her specialty, but Tracy says there are benefits to Western medicine as well, particularly in terms of treating acute conditions. She says the two forms can work hand in hand with one another. “It doesn’t have to be one or the other. They can be integrated. I wish more people knew that.”
Dave Fidlin is a freelance writer who has a special affinity for Madison. Dave’s career spans nearly 20 years, and he’s grateful for the opportunity to learn something new each day through his professional pursuits. Photographs provided by Isthmus Wellness.
With its big-picture approach, the applications of Eastern medicine might require time to achieve positive, meaningful outcomes, which can be a challenging concept in a Western society marked by instant fixes. “Sometimes it takes time, sometimes it doesn’t,” Tracy says. In her video message, Chandon further expands on this concept and emphasizes that clients who are in it for the long haul will reap the benefits Eastern medicine affords. “If you’re willing, we will create a new picture of health together and work tirelessly until that’s a reality...We know your body is not just a list of symptoms. We see you as a unique individual.”
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Finding BALANCE B Y KY L E J A CO B S O N
When I was the younger version of myself, I watched a lot of action movies. The explosions and over-the-top car chases of the ‘80s and early ‘90s went well with my Captain Crunch breakfasts and Kraft dinners. The muscle-stacked heroes not only saved the day through physics-defying theatrics, but they also shaped my perception of what it was to be fit. On the VHS edition of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, before the movie started, Arnold Schwarzenegger told me “Fitness is Feeling Great.” That’s a really fine message—the problem is I attached 18 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
it to having a sculpted physique. Wellness and overall health didn’t come into the equation, and young me thought people using those words were talking about being ripped. Now there’s nothing wrong with wanting to look a certain way, but it’s when you’re not doing it to feel good about yourself that there’s a problem. Amy Sanborn, founder and owner of MadPower Training Center, understands this and provides the equipment of a traditional gym in a very stress-free
environment. Her motto: work hard— play harder. “We really encourage the hanging-out aspect.” When I first entered MadPower, I wasn’t hit with anything vigorous or intimidating. I instead felt like I had entered a spa carrying a distinct jungle vibe. A lot of green ferny plants, an eclectic mix of jungle-inspired paintings and sculptures, and a nail salon. “It’s just meant to be a place that people feel good when they come in here and better when they leave.”
With access to a full array of stationary bikes under disco lights and rooms for dance and yoga classes, members have a lot of choices on how they can work up a sweat. And if they want to build muscle, there are classes for that too. Everyone can push themselves as hard as they choose in a nonjudgmental environment, reinforcing the camaraderie between members. After a shower, many gather at the full bar and partake in some weekly traditions. “Every Tuesday is tequila Tuesday.” Wellness for Amy is creating a sense of belonging where members take care of each other. “It feels a lot like a co-op membership.” And that environment inspires members to want to be their best selves inside and out.
with them to overcome new frustrations physically and mentally in her studio. She strives to ensure the things going on in her clients’ lives aren’t getting them stuck.
That’s what Sue Hogg, vitality coach, is all about. Being your best self. Sue says, “Wellness is a never-ending quest to find your optimal health in body, mind, and spirit.” Many of her clients have suffered from an injury or gone through surgery while others are business owners experiencing low vitality, and Sue works
“Sometimes our beliefs are just totally fiction. And so we have established these habits or this way of living that we think is the way we should live.” Sue sees people get sucked into their own expectations without ever wondering where those expectations came from. As Yuval Noah Harari, author and
historian, advocates humans are simply a collection of stories of what we buy in to. Through physical motions enhanced by her understanding of meridians in the body, Sue’s clients regain a vitality they lost from a life change or unseen stress. One of the first things Sue does with a new client is ask them what their dream is. This can be as simple as losing 10 pounds. She then asks what difference the goal would make and what would change in their life once the goal was met.
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The aim is to find the movements, exercises, and shift in mentality that works for each client on an individual basis. Sue will do Pilates and yoga with her clients, but the spiritual and intellectual changes have to come with the physical changes. “I’ve worked with three people whose ankles have absolutely been crushed. And how each of them heals is very, very different in what they need.” It might look like she does wellness differently, but I think she sees it as doing wellness completely. Keith Kubiesa, aka Coach Kubi, owner and conditioning coach of Summit Strength & Fitness, embraces doing things differently. Not everyone is programmed to work out on machines designed for the gym. “Do what’s fun. For a lot of people, lifting is not fun.”
Not everyone is programmed to work out on machines designed for the gym. “Do what’s fun. For a lot of people, lifting is not fun.”
Though Summit has some strengthtraining equipment, its focus is the giant climbing dome that looks like the mouth of a geometric cave. When someone pushes themselves at Summit, they sometimes have to step back from the wall. “Why did you fall?” Keith will ask. The climber then starts breaking down what happened physically and mentally before reattempting the problem, a term to denote a particular climbing sequence on the wall. This is quite different than pushing yourself in, say, a CrossFit class. “We do a lot of mindfulness practice.” It’s a form of awareness. The physicality
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Her clients are encouraged to “begin to live into what you’re shooting for right now. ... You’re so living everybody else’s expectations that you don’t really know what you expect out of you. And it’s so interesting to study you.”
of the body can operate in very efficient ways when you start to understand how everything connects. This knowledge then becomes a more conscious risk assessment when trying to perform certain maneuvers, which urges a climber to consider what happens if they miss a hold. It’s a full-body workout, and Keith says, “I think of our workouts here more as prehab—preventative rehab. ... That’s a lot of what our workouts are in here. To be safer. To strengthen your muscles, joints, ligaments, all in a safe, progressive way. ... I want you to get stronger in here, so you can go explore outside.”
Each person I talked to pushes the idea of balance in life. Being healthy doesn’t mean being fit. In fact, being overly fit can often be unhealthy. It can be obsessive. Being a part of something special to you, relieving stress by assessing who you want to be, and having the awareness to keep your body where it needs to be so you can do the things in life that are important to you is what wellness is all about. I think if we’re honest with ourselves, we can see where we want to spend time growing as individuals. With so many unique opportunities in Madison to improve mentally and physically, no one should be asking themselves how or where. The real question for those who haven’t started is when. Kyle Jacobson is a copy editor for Madison Essentials, and a writer and beer enthusiast (sometimes all at once) living in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
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Authentic Mexican Food the Way it was Intended BY LAURI LEE
Traditional Mexican food has never been more popular in Wisconsin than it is now. It’s easy to fall in love with a cuisine when the dishes are authentically prepared. If you love a taste of Mexico, you’ll find it at Blue Agave Restaurant and Lounge on Butler Street in downtown Madison. The restaurant opened in December 2017 to a demographic hungry for what they had to offer. Instead of taking years to develop a well-rounded customer base, the broad appeal of the menu’s traditional family recipes and extensive bar selection immediately drew young and old, families and career-minded 22 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
professionals, and foodies and those who love to dance. The restaurant is open seven days a week from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., serving lunch and dinner, and from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights the main floor converts to a nightclub environment for dancing and live dj music.
from a heart attack three years ago at age 49. This restaurant honors the dream of his father to someday own a restaurant in downtown Madison, something that he never got to do. The menu includes some of his recipes, and José has dedicated the restaurant to him and wrote a touching tribute that is featured in the menu and on the website.
Blue Agave is a family business owned by José Mata; his fiancé, Sandra Alamilla; and her brother, Fabian Alamilla. José, who manages the restaurant, worked at his father’s restaurants from the time he was 16 years old until his father’s death
The original recipes of Sandra and her mom, who are outstanding cooks, round out the menu to offer a delicious variety of Mexican dishes. The recipe origins represent different Mexican states. The mole sauce comes from Oaxaca, Mexico,
José’s love of tequila and its connection to his heritage inspired him to select this as the name of the restaurant. and pollo Tapatio represents Jalisco, Mexico, where José’s father’s family is from. There are also a few dishes from Mexico City. A guacamoliere custom mixes ripe avocados with other ingredients in a molcajete lava stone dish right at the table to offer a choice of three guacamole variations. The molcajete bowl is also used to serve a popular dish made with a variety of meats, including chicken, beef, and shrimp with bacon and chorizo, all marinated with red or green tomatillo sauce. It comes with a choice of warm flour or corn tortillas. Mexican favorites, such as guacamole, burritos, chimichangas, enchiladas, fajitas, tacos, tamales, seafood, steak, and chicken dishes, can be found on the menu. Almost everything served is made in house by chef Pedro. Diners come on a regular basis to enjoy their favorite weekday specials. Margarita Monday, Taco Tuesday, Burrito Wednesday, and Fish Taco Friday are big hits. On weekends, children under
age nine eat free with an adult meal purchase from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. On Sunday during football season, food and drink specials are offered during Packers games. The Blue Agave restaurant is named after the Agave tequilana plant, commonly called blue agave or tequila agave. Due to its role as the base ingredient in tequila, it’s an important economic product of Jalisco, Mexico. José’s love of tequila and its connection to his heritage inspired him to select this as the name of the restaurant. Over 130 different types of tequila, mescal, handcrafted margaritas, and tropical drinks are served at the full bar, which also features local draft beer and imported beer by the bottle. Fabian is the bartender and mixologist who expertly blends the drinks for restaurant patrons. Happy hour is 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. A lounge featuring a beautiful wrought iron railing overlooks the restaurant and dance floor to allow guests to take in the festive atmosphere and colorful madisonessentials.com
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“I fell in love with the atmosphere of the heart of Madison, and the restaurant building allows us to offer everything we wanted.” decorations below. It’s easy to feel like you’re part of the action and enjoying the ambiance with the other diners while observing from above. There are attractive couches that are welcoming and comfortable, as well as some tables where guests can grab a drink, relax, or hold a more private conversation. The space can also be rented out separately for a VIP area or small party. A Friday and Saturday night dance club was added to the restaurant plans to take advantage of Fabian’s wealth of experience in working for a local Latin nightclub for over 14 years. The tables and chairs are removed from the ground floor level after the restaurant closes at 9:00 p.m. After a fast transition, the room is turned around by 10:00 p.m. to provide a fun nightclub atmosphere for socializing and showing off dance moves. Happy hour for the lounge 24 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
is called the “power hour for the night life,” and is offered 10:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. In just one short year, Blue Agave has found their niche in downtown Madison. The secret that sets them apart from the rest of the pack is how the owners play to their strengths, follow their passions, and stay true to their heritage in all that they offer. They’ve found a great location with busy foot traffic due to a mixed crowd of people coming from around the city and region to work, play, and find entertainment in this destination location. With something for all ages, people have been seeking them out. The food is as popular with the lunchtime work crowd as it is with families on weekends. “I fell in love with the atmosphere of the heart of Madison, and the restaurant
building allows us to offer everything we wanted,” José says. “I’m a people person, and I get to meet a variety of people every day. There’s always something new to keep me learning and growing. I get to work with family, food, tequila, and people—the things I love the most.” Lauri Lee is a culinary herb guru and food writer living in Madison. Photographs by Eric Tadsen.
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MENTAL HEALTH IN THE CURRENT
POLITICAL CLIMATE BY ELIZABETH H. WINSTON, PHD
Regardless of where you stand, the current political environment has been stressful. We are feeling divisions between family and friends, and within and between communities. These kinds of divisions can cause stress, anxiety, fear, and sadness. Politics has been pervasive even in my own private practice since the 2016 presidential election. Clients have needed to discuss and process their reactions. I’ve provided support best as I can by implementing typical therapeutic techniques, such as active listening, reflecting, and validating their perspective. There are still a lot of emotions. 26 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
How can we cope during a worrisome time? STAY ENGAGED BUT KNOW WHEN TO TAKE A TIME-OUT Although it may feel tempting at times, burying your head in the sand is not a good long-term strategy. It’s important to stay politically engaged, but also protect yourself from too much stress when you feel overloaded. Many of us become entrenched in online debates. When an uncle, niece, or friend of a friend posts provocative content, it’s hard to refrain from responding. If you find yourself spending a lot of
time engaging in this kind of dialogue, you may want to take a step back and think about how you could use your time and energy in a more targeted way. For example, donate or volunteer for a political or social cause that’s meaningful to you. Or have an in-person conversation with a friend or neighbor. Other media, such as television and radio, can be important instruments of engagement, but also overwhelming at times. Know when to turn them off or switch to lighter fare. For example, when I see clients who are depressed, I encourage them to watch favorite shows, movies from their childhood, or comedies—nothing too heavy.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR MIND AND BODY Make sure to follow general wellness guidelines: get enough sleep, eat well, exercise regularly, and do things you enjoy. Spend time with friends and family. And if stress becomes too much, seek professional help. CONNECT Try to understand where the other side is coming from. If watching cable news channels elevates your blood pressure, try reading. For an explanation about the division between urban and rural America, read the University of Wisconsin’s own Kathy Cramer’s The Politics of Resentment. For insight into the alienation and loss felt by blue-collar workers, browse columns by the New York Times conservative writer David Brooks. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World and Me is an incisive look at what it means to be black in America, illuminating the importance of identity. With a different lens, we can try to have open, nondefensive conversations with those who see things differently. According to Daniel Yudkin, a research psychologist, we are divided based on our core beliefs about ourselves and the world. His research highlights the fissures between those of us who perceive the world as a fundamentally dangerous place and those who do not. He also describes the differences in beliefs about how one achieves success via hard work and adherence to rules, ethics, and tradition versus a more independent success characterized by self-expression, self-awareness, and an acknowledgement of relevant privilege and oppression. MENTAL HEALTH AND INSURANCE COVERAGE With the passage of the mental health parity law under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurance plans that have mental-health coverage must offer comparable coverage to that of physical health. If the ACA is dismantled, mental-health coverage could regress to pre-ACA days, which could also include noncoverage of preexisting conditions. Pre-ACA, I found patients that were not covered for major depressive episodes because they had experienced depression previously. It was absurd.
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BreatheF or Change BY EM ILY LO CK E
Educators have one of the most important jobs in our country—shaping the next generation. Yet teaching can be an incredibly stressful profession. Between the increasing pressure on students’ performances on standardized tests, decreasing teacher prep time and funding for schools, and never-ending lists of priorities, educators often stretch themselves too thin going the extra mile for their students. Not to mention the secondary traumatic stress that takes a toll on them while meeting the needs 28 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
of their students who have experienced trauma. Too often the well-being of educators falls to the wayside. All of these factors directly lead to teacher burnout. Up to 50 percent of teachers will leave the profession within their first five years. This type of turnover costs states billions of dollars every year and dramatically impacts academic performance among students. Educators themselves are not at fault, but rather the education system as a whole.
Unfortunately, the systemic changes are happening slowly at best, and it will take years to actually implement a large shift. With the well-being of our educators, students, and communities on the line, it’s not an option to wait for change to come. The question becomes what can we do right now? This was the question that Breathe For Change (B4C) Founder and CEO Dr. Ilana Nankin began to explore after her time as a prekindergarten teacher
in San Francisco. As a new teacher, she felt the immense amounts of stress and pressure that ride on the shoulders of educators. She began practicing yoga on a regular basis to manage her stress. She then started to incorporate mindfulness practices, such as breathing exercises and mindful movement, into her classroom and noticed a difference among her students. She knew there was something there and wanted to dig deeper. She came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to earn her PhD in curriculum and instruction. For her dissertation research, Dr. Nankin created a community of practice to support the preservice teachers she had taught in translating their social justice ideals into action in diverse classrooms during their first year as teachers. She found that these teachers were stressed and overwhelmed, yet had few to no tools to take care of themselves. This diminishing cycle of well-being revealed the critical connection between teacher well-being and effective teaching. Her dissertation demonstrated the negative
impact of educator stress on teaching and learning, and the positive impact that enhancing teacher well-being can have on student social-emotional and academic outcomes. Inspired by her research and her teaching experiences, Dr. Nankin created B4C to empower and train educators to use yoga, wellness, and social-emotional learning as a vehicle for social change. Her approach was to offer a life-changing training for educators that gives them the means to practice self-care and enhance the well-being of themselves, their students, and communities with a curriculum rooted in core components of social-emotional learning. In June 2015, B4C brought 34 educators from around the world to Madison for the first ever 200-hour yoga and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) teacher training designed specifically for educators. The powerful and transformational stories that these educators shared after the training gave testimony to the impactful outcomes
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that were possible. They were finding that students who often fought with each other or had tantrums were now doing mindful movement to make better decisions, and those who struggled with test taking were using breathing techniques to calm themselves down and, as a result, scoring higher. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) defines social-emotional learning as “the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.” Research indicates that there is a positive connection between mindful movement and socialemotional learning. It has been found that practicing mindful movement in
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schools can be an effective way to develop self-regulation, mind-body awareness, and physical fitness which may, in turn, foster additional SEL competencies and positive student outcomes. After the first training in 2015, Dr. Nankin and B4C Co-founder Michael Fenchel decided to expand B4C into a movement. The B4C team has grown, and their 200-hour yoga training is now offered in 14 major cities across the nation, including Madison. Over 2,500 educators have gone through B4C’s training, which, as a result, has impacted hundreds of thousands of students’ and educators’ lives. Upon completion of B4C’s 200-hour training, trainees earn their CYT200 yoga instructor certification from the largest international nonprofit association in the yoga community, Yoga Alliance. Trainees receive instruction on a variety of social-emotional learning
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practices and how to implement them across a range of different ages and developmental abilities. Plus, graduates of the program become part of a movement of educators who are inspired to create social change through wellness. B4C offers need-based scholarships to make their training more accessible and inclusive as possible for diverse educators and communities. Although B4C’s training is geared toward educators, they welcome those from all professions, especially those who serve others, like social workers, coaches, counselors, and healthcare workers. They hosted their first TwoDay Wellness & SEL training in Boston this past December in an effort to expand their training options. Breathe For Change is gaining momentum in their mission to change the world, one teacher at a time. For more information on the upcoming training happening in Madison this summer, check breatheforchange.com.
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“During my time at B4C’s training, I profoundly expanded my skills and my knowledge of yoga and mindfulness, which I am applying in my professional teaching career, personal growth, and daily living. This new increase in deeper happiness, contentment, and groundedness that I am experiencing is extending into my relationships and the world around me.” – Madison-based educator Christine K. breatheforchange.com
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An Honest View Mary Landry
by Kyle Jacobson Normalcy is the projection of a person’s story onto the world around them. It’s a state of being loaded with acceptance of a familiar reality. Wherever you grew up, however you grew up, you probably look back on your childhood and think, overall, things were pretty normal. Then we build up these subconscious blinders, which may lead to looking at things as you want to remember them and not as they truly are. When Mary Landry took an honest look at Madison, past the celebrated university, the communal nature of area farmers’ markets, and the egalitarian efforts of local businesses and organizations, she saw a need in women’s health that had become so normal for Madison, nobody really wanted to talk about it. Mary grew up in Monona. She went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, did her undergraduate work there along with her medical training and OB/GYN residency. Now she’s an OB/GYN for UW Health; works for the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus serving undergraduate, graduate, and professional students; and is a faculty professor with the UW School of Medicine. To say she knows Madison well would be like saying Big Bird might be able to tell me how to get to Sesame Street. But that’s not to say 32 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
she always thought she’d spend the rest of her life in the Greater Madison area. Like many health professionals, Mary considered taking her knowledge and expertise to other countries. “I had done some service work through a couple of organizations down in Honduras and Haiti, and I was kind of getting ready to decide where am I going next in the world. And it was sort of that perfect storm. Madison is my home. I can go to other parts of the world to find medical need and provide service, or I can open up my eyes and look honestly at my community and say, ‘I can do it here.’” What it took for Mary to give Madison an honest look was an OB/GYN resident from the Chicago area who worked in a low-resource clinic for uninsured women while in medical school. The resident physician was familiar with how uninsured women get their cancer prevented by outpatient procedures in Chicago, but in the high-resource city of Madison, things weren’t so straightforward. When the resident came to Mary’s rotation, Mary had recently admitted a patient who was hemorrhaging from advanced cervical cancer. Four months after the patient presented for care, she died. “Where do women go who don’t have insurance?”
the resident asked. Mary knew, having been in the Madison area her whole life with all her training, and answered, “There is nowhere.” Reality presented Mary with a choice: accept that things are functioning under the parameters of normalcy or create an answer to the resident’s question. After trying to come up with a solution that would satisfy the needs of the community while addressing the immediacy of the issue, Mary opted for what she saw the most efficient answer and started Share the Health, a nonprofit designed for uninsured women who need very procedureoriented or high-level consultative services from OB/GYNs. Share the Health is composed of volunteer physicians, pathologists, staff at UW hospitals who prep the biopsies, ultrasonographers, nurses, lab techs, physical therapists, medical assistants, and interpreters. These are all people who saw what Mary showed them and knew it needed to change, sacrificing their time after work to increase the overall health of Greater Madison area residents. Share the Health is so much more than a nonprofit in Mary’s eyes. It’s a tool
world somehow.” She sees how her idea of normal has been dissolved to reveal her new truth—a more honest truth. “I just have, I will say, a privilege because I am surrounded by a whole bunch of people who inspire me to be better. And I have a fundamental desire to be better. And my definition of being better is not centered on me or my family at this middle part of my life. It is all about making other people have the ability to live their lives better.”
to educate and affect people all over the world by being “glocal”—an idea coined by the past president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Glocal is global health work done at a local level. UW–Madison trains students from all over the world, and these medical students, publichealth graduate students, and OB/GYN residents have oftentimes been included in Share the Health. “So these learners, these infant doctors, are being exposed to how you can, outside of usual systems, think outside the box and solve the problems and be the voice against anyone who might say, ‘We don’t have a need.’ Yeah, we do.” When the vision and fundamental structure of Share the Health become familiar to Mary’s students and residents, the ideas reach as far as they take them. But Share the Health has another function for Mary: connecting with younger people who want to make a difference. Mary is most proud of her very broad collaborations with high
school students and undergrads who’ve been energized after hearing the stories of people ending up with cancer that is 100 percent preventable. “It keeps me going,” Mary says. Students have put together yoga fundraisers and 5k runs to raise money for the nonprofit, turning their empathy into action. What Mary has done with her nonprofit demonstrates the altruistic side of networking and connecting with people. It seems to me that by connecting to so many persons and organizations, Mary has more effectively connected with the community. She has trouble turning down an opportunity to connect, often finding herself mentoring others even though she might not have a lot of spare time. All that aside, working to connect with others, for Mary, is “a really good reason to be a good person.”
Be inspired to be better and you might be surprised how far your influence travels. Kyle Jacobson is a copy editor for Madison Essentials, and a writer and beer enthusiast (sometimes all at once) living in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Photographs provided by Share the Health.
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All that said, I don’t think Mary sees herself as an exception. “It’s the rare person that walks their path of life and doesn’t make a positive impact on the
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by Cassandra Bowers “The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought.” —U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in Riley v. California (2014)
warrant requirement for law enforcement access to electronic information, to chip away at the government’s excessive secrecy surrounding its surveillance practices, to promote the proliferation of privacy-protective technologies, and more.
Technological innovation has outpaced our privacy protections. As a result, our digital footprint can be tracked by the government and corporations in ways that were once unthinkable. This digital footprint is constantly growing, containing more and more data about the most intimate aspects of our lives. This includes our communications, whereabouts, online searches, purchases, and even our bodies. When the government has easy access to this information, we lose more than just privacy and control over our information. Free speech, security, and equality suffer as well.
Americans should not have to choose between using new technologies and protecting their civil liberties. We work to ensure a future in which the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches extends to digital property and keeping your data your own.
The ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project fights in the courts, lobbies on Capitol Hill, and works with technology companies to ensure that civil liberties are protected as technology advances. We are working to secure a 34 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
What you Need to Know • 1986. The federal law protecting your electronic information was passed in this year, making it older than the World Wide Web. • Fourth Amendment. The government argues that the Fourth Amendment protects information that you keep in your desk but not information that you keep online, like old emails or pictures. • National Security Agency (NSA). In order to carry out mass surveillance, the NSA has weakened the security of
the communications systems that we all rely on. Internet Privacy New technologies are making it easier for governments and corporations to learn the minutiae of our online activities. Corporations collect our information to sell to the highest bidder while an expanding surveillance apparatus and outdated privacy laws allow the government to monitor us like never before. With more and more of our lives moving online, these intrusions have devastating implications for our right to privacy. But more than just privacy is threatened when everything we say, everywhere we go, and everyone we associate with are fair game. We have seen that surveillance—whether by governments or corporations—kills free speech and free association, undermines a free media, and threatens the free exercise of religion. Location Tracking Law enforcement is taking advantage of outdated privacy laws to track Americans like never before. New technologies can
record your every movement, revealing detailed information about how you choose to live your life. Without the right protections in place, the government can gain access to this information and your private life with disturbing ease. As long as it’s turned on, your mobile phone registers its position with cell towers every few minutes, whether or not the phone is in use. Since mobile carriers are retaining location data on their customers, government officials— often without a warrant from a judge— can obtain detailed personal information about you by accessing your location history from your cell phone company. In tandem with information from other location-tracking technologies, like automatic license-plate readers, this information can tell the government an enormous deal about you, from which friends you’re seeing to where you go to the doctor to how often you go to church. Freedom from unreasonable government snooping has always been a foundation of liberty in America. Through coordinated open-government laws, like the Freedom of Information Act, the ACLU has uncovered the location-tracking policies and practices of hundreds of state and local police departments. We have also litigated in courts across the country to advocate for a warrant requirement for historical and real-time location information and lobbied in the U.S. Congress for the
passage of the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act. Medical and Genetic Privacy Medical and genetic information can reveal some of the most personal and private data about us, and maintaining control over that information is crucial. As medical records are increasingly digitized and genetic sequencing becomes faster and cheaper, threats to our privacy and autonomy intensify. Whether it’s police seeking to search medical records or conduct DNA tests without a warrant, or private corporations patenting human genes, the ACLU is standing up for your rights. The ACLU has long fought to preserve the privacy of sensitive medical records and genetic information. For example, in Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program v. Drug Enforcement Administration (2017), we argued that law enforcement must get a probable-cause warrant from a judge before requesting confidential prescription records from a state prescription-tracking database. In Maryland v. King (2013), we filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the drastic expansion of state DNA databases to include DNA samples from people who have been arrested but not yet convicted. In a 2004 case, we even asked a Florida court to protect the confidentiality of Rush Limbaugh’s medical records against unreasonable government search.
We have also consistently opposed attempts to infringe on people’s autonomy in making medical decisions. In 1965, the ACLU filed a friend-of-thecourt brief in Griswold v. Connecticut, (1965) a landmark case where the Supreme Court struck down a state prohibition on the prescription, sale, or use of contraceptives, even for married couples, and recognized a right to privacy surrounding intimate medical and family planning decisions. More recently, in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (2013), the ACLU successfully persuaded the Supreme Court to
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to their use through our democratic political system. The ACLU promotes the preservation of privacy and other values in a manner that maximizes the advantages that such technology might bring us. In some cases, technology-specific rules might be warranted. In all cases, we would benefit from the application of basic privacy principles, such as the globally recognized Fair Information Practice Principles. Workplace Privacy Many of the basic rights we take for granted are not protected when we go to work. The ACLU continues to fight for employee privacy by challenging how those rights are violated by employers through workplace surveillance, unwarranted drug testing, and lifestyle discrimination. Employers have a legitimate interest in monitoring work to ensure efficiency and productivity. But employee surveillance often goes well beyond legitimate
management concerns and becomes simple spying in furtherance of no legitimate business interest. Electronic monitoring of employees is an area where we have seen the emergence of especially intrusive and unprecedented levels of workplace surveillance. Any monitoring of employees should be narrowly tailored in time, place, and manner, and it should be transparent to employees (unless the employer is conducting an investigation based on substantial evidence of misconduct). Even permitted intrusions should not be used in a way that creates an atmosphere of pervasive surveillance or intimidation. We shouldn’t have to choose between using new technologies and keeping our personal information private. The ACLU works to promote a future where technology can be implemented in ways that protect civil liberties, limit the collection of personal information, and ensure that individuals have control over their private data. Cassandra Bowers is the communications director at ACLU of Wisconsin. Photographs provided by ACLU of Wisconsin.
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Anal Glands by Lori Scarlett, DVM
Make a circle with your left thumb and forefinger. Take your right thumb and forefinger and place the tips on either side of the circle you made—at about the four o’clock and eight o’clock position. Now have someone lift up your dog or cat’s tail and put your circle over the anus. The anal glands (or more precisely, anal sacs) are approximately where your right thumb and forefinger point. So now that you know where to find them on your dog or cat, what the heck are they? The anal sacs are sebaceous glands which secrete fluid that is generally thick and dark colored and smells fishy. Many wild animals can release the contents of the sac voluntarily, producing a very malodorous liquid used for scent marking or in self-defense, particularly in the case of a skunk. Opossums use their anal glands to “play possum.” Their glands secrete a liquid
that smells like a rotting carcass, making the predator think the animal has been dead a long time and, thus, avoiding it. Hyenas produce a gooey fluid from their anal glands wonderfully named hyena butter. This fluid is used to mark their territory. Dogs and cats aren’t usually able to voluntarily release the contents of their sacs, but if they get scared, the anal sacs often empty on their own. Interestingly, humans also have anal sacs, although they are classified as eccrine-secreting sweat glands. They are located in the wall of the anal canal and secrete fluid into ducts which open into the anal crypts. These are located approximately one-half inch inside the rectum. Thank heavens these sacs appear to have little function in humans, although if you are really scared, they may release some fluid. If they become obstructed, however, it can lead to a perianal infection. In dogs and cats, defecation and walking helps push out the contents of the sacs, but some animals are unable to empty the sacs on their own. When this occurs, the sacs become impacted (full) and uncomfortable. Dogs will often scoot their butt on the ground in an attempt to empty the glands. Other dogs will lick excessively at their anus or keep turning and biting at their tail region. I had one dog that would vomit when his anal glands were full, but had no other clinical signs.
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Some dogs just act off—shivering, not wanting to walk, holding their tails down, or hiding. Cats may lick the fur off under their tails or defecate outside the litter box. Impacted anal sacs are painful, making defecation uncomfortable, and can lead to constipation. Sometimes the overly full glands will leak when the pet is resting, often on your lap. If your dog scoots once or twice and then seems fine for a period of time, he likely expressed his anal glands himself. Adding a higher fiber supplement or switching to a high-fiber food helps bulk up the stool, which may be more effective at emptying the sac as it passes by. But if the scooting or licking continues, then the glands need to be expressed. While groomers and some pet owners express anal glands externally, it may not be sufficient to release all the material. If you want to learn how to express anal glands on your dog—I definitely don’t recommend trying it on your cat—ask your friendly veterinarian or veterinary technician to give you a tutorial. Be forewarned, and I speak from experience, anal gland material that doesn’t go directly into a tissue or your gloved hand can end up on your clothes, in your hair, or on the wall and will smell pungent for quite some time. If you aren’t up to expressing the glands on your own, your veterinarian or veterinary technician will do it
If your pet is scooting or licking frequently and you don’t have the glands emptied, the impacted glands can develop an infection or abscess due to contamination with fecal matter. If this occurs, there will be a painful swelling to the side of the anus, and the infection can drain through the skin, causing a bloody discharge. If this happens to your pet, you may notice blood when they defecate or sit down and a bad odor from the back end. Anal gland abscesses require a veterinary visit and antibiotics. The vet will likely try to express the other side in case it is also impacted. Again, abscessed anal glands
are painful, and sometimes sedation of the pet is required to clean up the area. Recurrent anal gland issues can be due to conformation—the gland is not situated to make normal drainage with defecation possible. Smaller-breed dogs tend to have more anal gland issues, although this might be because of groomers often expressing the anal glands, causing them to not function well on their own; obesity; or allergies, which can cause inflammation of the gland. If your pet has recurrent anal gland issues requiring frequent emptying by the vet or antibiotics for infection, you can have the anal glands surgically removed. It’s best to have an experienced veterinary surgeon do this procedure as there are many nerves in the area that control the anal sphincter. If they are damaged, your pet may become fecally incontinent, which certainly isn’t ideal.
So when you see your dog or cat scooting or paying extra attention to their rear end, think about anal glands and make an appointment to see your veterinarian. Anal gland expression is a procedure that is done on an almost daily basis in the vet clinic and is rather rewarding for all involved! Lori Scarlett, DVM, is the owner and veterinarian at Four Lakes Veterinary Clinic. For more information, visit fourlakesvet.com. Photograph by Brenda Eckhardt
internally, which is better for completely emptying the sac. Internal expression also gives the vet a chance to evaluate the contents to see if there is blood or pus, and to feel for any thickening or mass in the sac itself. If there’s an infection, then the vet can prescribe antibiotics and might instill antibiotics directly into the gland to help clear things up.
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by Jeanne Engle Studies have shown that regular cycling can contribute to one’s well-being by cutting the risk of heart disease, by holding back the effects of aging, and by rejuvenating the immune system. It’s fitting, then, that a bicycle shop should be located in a historic building whose renovation has contributed to the wellbeing of its community. Motorless Motion Bicycles bought the historic Milwaukee Road Depot at 640 W. Washington Avenue and opened its doors in 2013. The building had been designated a Madison landmark in 1975 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The current building, constructed in 1903, was the second depot on the site.
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Photograph provided by Motorless Motion Bicycles
The first had been erected in 1854 to accommodate the first rail line passing through Madison from Milwaukee to Prairie du Chien. The railroad company that operated the line was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad, known simply as the Milwaukee Road. Frost and Granger, a Chicago architectural firm, designed the depot. Charles Sumner Frost, one of the partners, had married the daughter of a railroad magnate, putting him in a position to receive depot commissions. He also undertook studies for the design of railroad buildings. In regard to depot design he wrote, “Architecturally the building should express its purpose and, when possible, also give some hint as to the character of the town or city it serves. Above all things, as it is intended for a waiting place, the shelter feature must be strongly developed. The wall and piers should be massive, even out of proportion to the load they carry, in order not to be damaged by the vibration and jar caused by passing trains.”
The Milwaukee Road Depot, an imposing brick structure, is in the beaux arts neo-classical style with bracketed eaves, arched windows, and other Renaissance details. This architectural style was popularized by the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Its design marked the heyday of the railroad as the prime mover of people and goods. A report on the opening of the depot in one of Madison’s early local newspapers, the Madison Democrat, stated, “The depot embodies all of the latest and newest features of railroad depot construction with a view particularly to the convenience of the traveling public.” The paper commented that the building was especially attractive in the evening when the electric lights were turned on. The interior waiting room had benches and fancy rockers to accommodate 200 to 300 passengers. The Milwaukee Road brought tourists, legislators, university students, and soldiers to Madison throughout the madisonessentials.com
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years. Along with two other railroads, the Milwaukee Road facilitated the development of the city as a wholesale and distribution center large enough to serve farmers and agricultural industries throughout the Midwest, according to the National Register nomination.
With a reputation for high-quality service, the Milwaukee Road provided some of the most innovative and colorful trains. However, people stopped using the railroad for transportation, and by the mid-20th century, the Milwaukee Road saw a marked decline in ridership.
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The company discontinued passenger service on April 30, 1971, and was the last rail company in Madison to do so. The Milwaukee Road continued its freight operation but eventually went bankrupt and merged into the Soo Line Railroad, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, on January 1, 1986. After the Milwaukee Road ceased passenger operations, its depot closed and the building fell into severe disrepair. In 1987, the Alexander Company began its West Washington Avenue rail corridor development with the conversion of the WiedenbeckDobelin Warehouse into apartments, and two years later, purchased the Milwaukee Road Depot. “It was in a central location in an area that was quite blighted,” explains Dave Vos, project manager. “There was no Kohl Center at that time. Schmidt’s Salvage was located adjacent to the site. One of the biggest issues with the depot was environmental cleanup. We also had to find tenants to occupy the building.” Restoration work on the building included a new roof, masonry tuckpointing, rebuilding and repairing doors and windows, building in new mechanical systems, and replacing train tracks at a cost of $2.9 million. The Alexander Company purchased a 1940s-era locomotive, towed it to the site where it still stands, and converted
“The Alexander Company found projects like the Milwaukee Road Depot that no one else wanted to do and returned them as points of pride to the community. A historic building connects a community to its roots. It differentiates that community from others and helps its residents to understand why it exists,” says Dave. For Roger Charly, owner of Motorless Motion and a huge fan of Americana, the Milwaukee Road Depot was a fitting building for his business. According to the store’s general manager, Alex Zacher, the depot underwent another major restoration to preserve its character and to bring it back as close as possible to the original station. The terrazzo floor was restored along with the paving stones on the platform. The platform was glassed in and is now an interior part of the store, allowing for more inventory on the sales floor as well as protecting the building’s facade. Alex notes, “We worked with the same architect, James McFadden, who had been working on the property for many years. He knew the building inside and
out. He knew what renovations had been done, what changed, who did it, and why they did it. He was extremely helpful. “We show off this striking building as much as we can. Customers drink it in. It’s not that often one can come into a building with 50-foot ceilings. It produces a certain awe factor. … Being in this historic building helps our business become a bigger part of the city.”
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it into one-of-a-kind commercial spaces. The depot was adapted into a restaurant. The walls of the restaurant were decorated with hand-painted murals with railroad-station themes.
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Andrew Roth by Elissa Koppel When is it too late to throw yourself into what you love? Do we cross a moment in adulthood when we put aside our longings for the long haul? Do we have to? In the early 2000s, Andrew Roth was working full-time as a product development engineer in Milwaukee. He had established a practice of sequestering all his vacation days and taking an extended trip once a year. “I would come up with the craziest trip I could. It wasn’t like going to Cancun kind of trips. I was just trying to go off into the weird, remote, quiet places and see the way the world really works,” Andrew recalls. “I could walk up to 44 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
somebody and hear what their story is. The camera gives you that pass. So I just fell in love with not only traveling but then really meeting people on some intimate level even if it’s just a little conversation you have with somebody.” The outlet succeeded in allowing Andrew to relax and continue to learn, but after some time, it demanded more than his post was willing to accommodate. “I had done this long enough that every Monday morning, when I would come back to work after being gone for three weeks, I would sit down on my lunch break, start looking
at my photos, and remember that feeling of ‘oh man, it’s another year before I have enough vacation time built up.’ Then, as an engineer, I’m doing the math in my head. I’m keeping this list of all the places I want to go to, and I’m thinking, ‘There are too many places on this list, and I’m never gonna do this before I die if I only do one trip a year,’” Andrew explains. The timing wasn’t functional, and his heart wasn’t in engineering anymore. When I ask him about the moment he decided to quit and immerse himself in art, he remembers thinking, “If my
heart is in photography, and I’m trying to figure out that path in life … you only get one chance at this, so I quit my job and decided that I was just going to do photography and the photography that was important to me. Not owning a portrait studio on Main Street or something like that. I wanted to go out and really see the world.” At 36 years old, Andrew made the decision to leave his engineering job, not having sold a single photograph. Andrew’s subject has always been indigenous peoples and societies that have resisted modernization. “I put this plan together to really dive into different human cultures that have somehow remained the same, so the first big trip I went on was to North Africa. I went to Morocco.” Having hired a driver for three weeks who guided him to markets
and camps, Andrew was able to get to know some Berber people and learn about their ways of life. “Berbers are essentially the ethnic group of non-Arab indigenous people north of the Sahara Desert. Some live normal modernday kind of lives, but there is still a population of Berbers that are nomadic and live a real, traditional life.” The time in Morocco catapulted Andrew toward promoting his material back home and, therein, landing on his feet financially. He knew he was hearing narratives that were not being represented in mainstream art and culture back in the United States, so he pushed to display his work throughout the United States. Reflecting on the collection Morocco: Timeless Berbers, Andrew maintains,
“I could walk up to somebody and hear what their story is. The camera gives you that pass.”
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“So I just fell in love with not only traveling but then really meeting people on some intimate level even if it’s just a little conversation you have with somebody.”
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“[Morocco] is a Muslim country; it’s 99 percent Islamic faith. So I came home with all these photos, and I started exhibiting around the country. The subjects of many of these photographs are people of Islamic faith. These people and this faith aren’t focused on. You hear all sorts of feedback in terms of how it’s received. But that was the whole point—to go out there and present something that is different.” At the same time, Andrew’s portraiture communicates a universality to human experience. In his compilation Cambodia: Not Forgotten, Andrew seeks to honor the millennia of cultural history of Cambodian people as well as their suffering at the hands of Khmer Rouge during the mid-1970s. In our conversation, Andrew challenges common tendencies. He shares that some of the most rewarding experiences can’t be attained by remaining insular and sitting on the couch. Moreover, he states that by watching television,
“You take pictures—you do photography—to share it. It doesn’t matter who I’m sharing it with, if they get it, they get it.”
That message continues to pull Andrew around the United States because he wants folks to see his portraits and be moved. “If I can touch somebody in Texas, you know, make some emotional connection with them, then that’s a win. You take pictures—you do photography—to share it. It doesn’t
matter who I’m sharing it with, if they get it, they get it.” The best way to access Andrew’s work is at andrewrothphotography.com. Elissa Koppel is a freelance writer and a local artist. Photographs provided by Andrew Roth Photography. Photograph by Olivia Loomis
one could think the world much more dangerous than it is. The fear of foreign people and places, he says, is unfounded. “For all these little villages that I end up traveling through, what I always find is that there’s just this commonality of life. Like in my neighborhood—I live in West Bend—obviously, I want it to be a safe place. You don’t want trouble to happen. If you’re in some village in the middle of Cambodia, those people want the same thing. They want a peaceful place to live.”
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After Should by Sandy Eichel
Welcome back! If you’ve been following along, in 2018 you read about how I lived a life of should—I should be this, I should do that. I was miserable being what others wanted me to be and decided to come out of the closet of should. For 2019, I’m going to talk about how I left a life of should and what lessons I learned to free myself. These learning lessons were earth-shattering ideas for me and changed my entire life. Hopefully, you aren’t stuck in a life of should, but whether you are or not, I bet you can learn something from these lessons. Buckle up and come along for the ride! When I started the work on myself, I was doing it to benefit my business. I had just moved to Madison and was building my business; I didn’t realize how stuck I was. I started reading tons of thought work books to be a better business person. What I didn’t realize is how much of an impact this work would also make on my personal life. The first book that changed the way I thought and made me look at my own actions in a different way was Loving 48 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
What Is, by Byron Katie. This book describes the basic principle of staying in your business and that there are three circles: your business (what you have direct control of), other people’s business, and God’s or the Universe’s business. The concept of staying in your own business, or, as I like to think of it, staying in your lane, is that you can only control what you do and say, not how others will behave or react. Whenever you’re in one of the two circles worrying about what other people think, what they will do, or what will happen in the world, you’re creating your own suffering. This may sound simple, but it isn’t. Think about how many times in the last 24 hours you worried about what someone else did or thought. I know you’re about to throw out a but, but there are no buts. You have to stay in your lane in order to prevent your own suffering. It’s easy to think we have more control than we actually do over other people and situations—that we can make someone do something or change their opinion. But we can’t. We can state
our opinion and encourage someone to think more about an issue and look at another perspective, but we can’t actually change their opinion. If we stay attached to the idea that we can change others’ minds, then when it doesn’t happen, we become frustrated. Why won’t they do what they should do? Staying in your lane means you let go of what will happen once you’ve done all you can. It’s hard. It isn’t that you don’t care, but the acceptance of things you can’t control and the uncertainty of a situation. It’s letting yourself off the hook for things you never should have been on the hook for in the first place. “What will people think” are the four words that destroy dreams. Many people have been prevented from doing things they want to do because of worrying about what others will think. The fear of judgement has controlled many people and caused them to behave and live their lives accordingly. I know, I did that. As I started to comprehend this concept, I began to notice how often my mind was worrying about what other people were thinking about me. It was most
of the time, and, consequently, I was rarely in my own business, creating my own suffering. A couple of things happened once I started staying in my lane. I began to realize how often I apologized for things that weren’t my fault. I was constantly apologizing when someone else wasn’t happy, believing that my job was to make others happy—that I was somehow in control of their happiness. When you say those words out loud, you realize how ridiculous they are. But in my brain, it was a real thought. Conversely, I also realized that I was in control of my happiness, which was something I wanted to pursue. The concept takes practice. It was only when I stopped living my life based upon what others thought I should do, and stopped worrying what they would think of me, that I was able to start listening to what I wanted to do and be.
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I wish I could install an alarm in my head like the one in my car that goes off every time I start to cross over the lines on the road. This is really challenging, and once you start catching yourself, you start to realize how our whole society encourages us to be in the business of others. It isn’t easy, to be sure, but the relief you feel when you stay in your business is amazing. You’re freed up to focus on you—your desires, goals, and happiness. An added bonus is that your healthy behaviors will help others around you stay in their business. Not that you’ll care because you won’t be attached to what they do. *wink
Sandy Eichel is a happy ex-should-er.
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TAX STRATEGIES FOR RETIREES By formulating a tax-efficient investment and distribution strategy, retirees may keep more of their hard-earned assets for themselves and their heirs. Here are a few suggestions for effective money management during your later years.
LESS-TAXING INVESTMENTS
Municipal bonds have long been appreciated by retirees seeking a haven from taxes and stock-market volatility. In general, the interest paid on municipal bonds is exempt from federal taxes and sometimes state and local taxes as well. The higher your tax bracket, the more you may benefit from investing in municipal bonds.
Why? Because the maximum federal tax rate on some dividend-producing investments and longterm capital gains is 20 percent. In light of this, many financial experts recommend keeping real estate investment trusts (REITs), high-yield bonds, and high-turnover stock mutual funds in tax-deferred accounts. Low-turnover stock funds, municipal bonds, and growth or value stocks may be more appropriate for taxable accounts.
WHICH SECURITIES TO TAP FIRST?
Also, consider investing in tax-managed mutual funds. Managers of these funds pursue tax efficiency by employing a number of strategies. For instance, they might limit the number of times they trade investments within a fund or sell securities at a loss to offset portfolio gains. Equity index funds may also be more tax efficient than actively managed stock funds due to a potentially lower investment turnover rate.
Another major decision facing retirees is when to liquidate various types of assets. The advantage of holding on to tax-deferred investments is that they compound on a before-tax basis and, therefore, have greater earning potential than their taxable counterparts. On the other hand, you’ll need to consider that qualified withdrawals from tax-deferred investments are taxed at ordinary federal income tax rates of up to 37 percent, while distributions in the form of capital gains or dividends from investments in taxable accounts are taxed at a maximum 20 percent (capital gains on investments held for less than a year are taxed at regular income-tax rates).
It’s also important to review which types of securities are held in taxable versus tax-deferred accounts.
For this reason, it’s beneficial to hold securities in taxable accounts long enough to qualify for
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the favorable long-term rate. And when choosing between tapping capital gains versus dividends, long-term capital gains are more attractive from an estate-planning perspective because you get a step up in basis on appreciated assets at death. It also makes sense to take a long view with regard to tapping tax-deferred accounts. Keep in mind, however, the deadline for taking annual required minimum distributions (RMDs). THE INS AND OUTS OF RMDS The IRS mandates that you begin taking an annual RMD from traditional individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and employer-sponsored retirement plans after you reach age 70 1/2. The premise behind the RMD rule is simple: the longer you are expected to live, the less the IRS requires you to withdraw (and pay taxes on) each year. RMDs are now based on a uniform table, which takes into consideration the participant’s and beneficiary’s lifetimes based on the participant’s age. Failure to take the RMD can result in a tax penalty equal to 50 percent of the required amount. Tip: if you’ll be pushed into a higher tax bracket at age 70 1/2 due to the RMD rule, it may pay to begin taking withdrawals during your 60s. Unlike traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs do not require you to begin taking distributions by age 70 1/2. In fact, you’re never required to take distributions from your Roth IRA, and qualified withdrawals are tax free. For this reason, you may wish to liquidate investments in a Roth IRA after you’ve exhausted other sources of income. Be aware, however, that your beneficiaries will be required to take RMDs after your death.
ESTATE PLANNING AND GIFTING
There are various ways to make the tax payments on your assets easier for heirs to handle. Careful selection of beneficiaries of your accounts is one example. If you do not name a beneficiary, your assets could end up in probate, and your beneficiaries could be taking distributions faster than they expected. In most cases, spousal beneficiaries are ideal because they have several options that aren’t available to other beneficiaries, including the marital deduction for the federal estate tax. Also consider transferring assets into an irrevocable trust if you’re close to the threshold for owing estate taxes. In 2018, the federal estate tax applies to all estate assets over $11.2 million. Assets in an
irrevocable trust are passed on free of estate taxes, saving heirs thousands of dollars. Tip: if you plan on moving assets from tax-deferred accounts, do so before you reach age 70 1/2, when RMDs begin. Finally, if you have a taxable estate, you can give up to $15,000 per individual ($30,000 per married couple) each year to anyone tax free. Consider making gifts to children over age 14, as dividends may be taxed— or gains tapped—at much lower tax rates than those that apply to adults. Tip: some people choose to transfer appreciated securities to custodial accounts (UTMAs and UGMAs) to help save for a grandchild’s higher education expenses. Strategies for making the most of your money and reducing taxes are complex. Your best recourse? Plan ahead and consider meeting with a competent tax advisor, an estate attorney, and a financial professional to help you sort through your options.
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IF THEY
we should go BY KYLE JACOBSON
Parties, classes, concerts, and town hall meetings all have something in common. They need space. In the not-too-distant past, churches played probably the largest role in providing space for people with common interests to come together and work, plan, discuss, or play. Studies and surveys from Pew Research Center suggest church participation is way down from where it was 50 to 70 years ago.1,2 So all these shared beliefs and systemic understandings become more compartmentalized, even diametrically opposed, and in the age of the internet, the ability to escape to whatever cubby we feel comfortable in is maybe a bit too easy. If you ask me, with almost no exception, the internet is why the country is divided in this contemporary age. Some
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blame the Obama administration while others blame the Trump administration, but you look at individual google search histories, and it’s not hard to figure it out. “Why do Democrats hate Freedom?” or “Why do Republicans hate Science?” Yeah, no wonder people think the world is going to hell in a handbasket. The internet allows me to center my life on anything I want; it’s why I’m more prepared for the robot uprising than the average joe. One last comment before I transition to the point of this article—the internet, without a doubt, carries with it the potential to create the most educated, well-rounded, and capable public the world has ever seen. Through necessitated optimism, I believe we will one day tap into that potential.
So, community spaces. They allow a diverse public to come together, but you’re gonna need space and something to really bring people in. Say...beer does a pretty good job at getting people’s attention. A lot of the stigma that once hovered around bars and breweries has shifted away from the checkered-stained-glass dive that is Moe’s in The Simpsons. In fact, some breweries have embraced the opportunity to be the place in town to go for good food, solid entertainment, and a family-friendly experience. “I do feel that there’s a resurgence of an attempt to entertain people here [at a brewery] that’s not just strictly based on alcohol. It’s a gathering. It’s an experience rather than just a getsloshed-and-go-home kind of thing,”
says Sam Green, brewer at Octopi Brewing. People have embraced local brewery efforts in community outreach. The plumes of consequential cannonade ignited by beer surveyors, partakers, and purveyors has grown to such that those uninterested in alcohol not only take note, but often participate in the going-ons and shindigs (rabble rousing or no) to have a good-old-fashioned time and meet neighbors old and new. These events go beyond local music and trivia nights, though those staples still very much exist as part of the scene. “Paint night, the whole idea of it is ‘hey, go be arts and craftsy at this bar or brewery. Come a little early, get a drink, have dinner, stay and do this event, and then potentially stay afterwards,’” says Miranda Ladwig, event coordinator and taproom manager at Octopi Brewing. From rock concert to knitting class, anything goes, but at the end of the day, the brewery is a brewery. Still, there’s this microcosmic effect. By taking a
position of flexibility when planning out the week’s events, the space born from necessity when operating a brewery can be quite reflective of the community that supports it, whether creative, health focused, or simply relaxed. One of the results of breweries taking themselves to task on the role they play in their communities has been organizations embracing the opportunity to collaborate, including some inspired startups, Om Brewers (ombrewers.com) being one that came up during my discussion with Sam and Miranda. It’s yoga meets beer. From the Om Brewers site: Origins— New Years Eve, 2016 Melissa was drinking alone at LynLake Brewery wondering why she was the only one of her friends not getting engaged. Struck up a conversation with LynLake Brewery’s new marketing
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director, and Om Brewers was born. She sketched the logo on a napkin, and built the website that night. Om Brewers now has events all over Madison and Minneapolis, so if you’re looking for a place to do yoga, whether or not you have an interest in beer, you might find yourself signing up for a class at Octopi Brewing, Old Sugar Distillery, or Working Draft Beer Company. “I want to try to find more things like that,” says Miranda, “where people have
a reason to come here and just hang out. That’s the point.” With all this collaboration, the really cool thing that happens from time to time is a beer is born. Breweries partner either with each other or local organizations to do something truly unique. Sometimes benefiting the community as a whole while working with nonprofits that tackle everyday problems we’re not always privy to, like homelessness, hunger, underserved veterans, and the
continued maintenance and staffing of animal shelters. Being a Sun Prairie resident, one of my favorites of these collaborations is when Potosi Brewing Company created #SunPrairieStrong Pilsner. The profits went toward the Sun Prairie Disaster Relief Fund after last year’s explosion downtown. The well-being of a community isn’t dependent on one facet of a city or town doing well—it’s measured by the successes of everyone and everything
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impacted by the actions and decisions of others, be they nonprofits, government, local businesses, or commercial enterprises. Our individual bubbles are part of this massive sphere-shaped Venn Diagram of influence. Each one of those influences is either connected to some sort of hub or plays the role of the hub itself. Some breweries have taken on the role of hub for their communities, and I think that’s not only a cause for celebration, but a great reason to get involved. As breweries take on a new role in engaging an ever-more-diverse range of people, we as patrons can do a lot to create a welcoming place where physical health can be maintained, mental health can be nurtured, and ideas can percolate and proliferate without leaving anyone feeling defeated. May the glass we raise tomorrow have more company than the glass we raise today. Religious Composition of adults in Wisconsin. Pew Research. http://www.pewforum.org /religious-landscape-study/state/wisconsin/ 2 U.S. Becoming Less Religious. Pew Research. http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03 /u-spublic-becoming-less-religious/ 1
Kyle Jacobson is a copy editor for Madison Essentials, and a writer and beer enthusiast (sometimes all at once) living in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Photographs provided by Octopi Brewing.
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Dedicating time to outside play each week helps you reap the health benefits in addition to creating opportunities to spend time with family members and friends, and potentially making new friends.
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There are many reasons to play outside, including that on their own being outside and playing have demonstrated positive impacts on people’s lives both physically and emotionally. Dedicating time to outside play each week helps you reap the health benefits in addition to creating opportunities to spend time with family members and friends, and potentially making new friends.
the incentive you need. Indoors and outdoors, racket sports can be played year-round, but playing outdoors adds the extra challenge of wind and sun. Tennis is a lifelong sport and a great game for all ages. Many communities have public tennis courts, including Madison Parks, which has 92 courts available mostly on a first-come, firstserved basis.
If you’re looking for some ideas, here are outdoor sports/events that are accessible to all ages and skill levels. They can also be taken to a competition level if that’s
If you need the motivation of a set time and place to play, you can take tennis lessons through Madison School & Community Recreation. Lessons cover
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all levels of play for all ages, from prebeginners starting at age five and up! For youth that like to compete, they offer a team tennis class that travels to neighboring communities. For adults that want to compete beyond their regular hitting partners, the Wisconsin chapter of the United States Tennis Association offers competitive leagues as well as team play. Pickleball is a racket sport that was invented in 1965, and has taken the country by storm. The smaller court, lower net, and modified whiffle ball make this a widely accessible sport for all ages. It has been described as a cross between ping-pong, tennis, and paddle tennis and was designed to be easy to play and learned and, most importantly, fun! All you need is a badminton-sized court (could be drawn on a driveway or courtyard), a lowered badminton type net (34 inches), paddles, and a whifflestyled pickleball. Existing tennis courts can be reconfigured for pickleball too, or if you live in Madison, visit Garner Park, where six dedicated pickleball courts opened in 2016 to increase pickleball opportunities. Badger State Games, Wisconsin’s Olympic-style sports festival, added pickleball to both its winter and summer games, recognizing the sport’s growing popularity. And the Wisconsin Cup will be played in New Berlin June 8 and 9. To
learn more about this fast-growing sport and where you can play, visit Pickleball Wisconsin at pickleballwi.com. Golf has been a staple in Wisconsin since the late 1800s with the first PGA Championship taking place here in 1933. Over the past 10 years, professionals have been coming back because of the incredible courses and enthusiastic spectator support. Wisconsin has hundreds of courses with many open to the public, including short, compact courses with 6, 9, or 12 holes that are family friendly. Vitense Golfland in Madison offers a variety of golf opportunities, including: • a par-3 course • golf range • indoor and outdoor miniature courses • FlingGolf, which is played on the golf course with a golf ball and flingstick. This is meant to appeal to lacrosse and baseball players. • Footgolf, where soccer meets golf. The course has 22-inch holes. These variations broaden the appeal to people who might not otherwise go to a course. The Federation for International FootGolf organizes leagues and tournaments. Since 2012, the Federation has organized the FootGolf World Cup. Team USA men won the team competition in the third World Cup, held in 2018. Closer to home, the American FootGolf League organizes a tour and a US Open event. For golf fans, the 71st US Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship will be held in Stevens Point at SentryWorld Golf Course July 22 to 27. Attendance is free and open to the public. Held since 1949, this will be the first time Wisconsin has hosted the Girls’ Championship. For more information about this tournament and opportunity to watch up-and-coming stars of the women’s circuit, visit sentryworld.com /usga-girls-junior-championship. Adventure racing has been adopted by Badger State Games. It combines a variety of outdoor skills and sports madisonessentials.com
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used over long distances and hours. The Wausau-based Rib Mountain Racing coed team finished first in the 2018 Wisconsin Adventure Racing Series and are ranked third in the country by the United States Adventure Racing Association. Family adventure racing usually covers shorter distances combining the skills of treasure hunting with biking, hiking, paddling, and a lot of teamwork. And just like the other divisions, a team races from one checkpoint to the next using a map and compass. For competition, enter Badger State Games’ family division. For fun and practice orienteering, visit a permanent course or look for pop-up courses. On The Map, LLC provides orienteering experiences setting up courses in local parks for events, scouts, and other groups. Families can also try challenge or obstacle races. The Great Amazing Race and the Kids Obstacle Challenge offer events at both competitive and fun levels in or near Wisconsin. The Kids Obstacle Challenge often includes a 58 | m a d i s o n e s s e n t i a l s
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Livable Landscapes BY JOAN W. ZIEGLER Urban landscapes are an intrinsic part of human and planetary health and well-being. The ability plants have to capture and convert light into energy is fundamental to the food and fuel on which the earth depends. Additionally, plants within our landscapes have the potential to improve air quality, reduce urban heat islands, purify wastewater, limit runoff, and reduce stress. As communities and individuals, incorporating green infrastructure into our urban landscapes will make our cities more livable, resilient, and healthful. Clean Air and Cooling Summer Heat As our cities grow, plants offer a natural solution for mitigating air pollution and cooling cities. Trees and other greenery may be eight times more effective than
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previously thought in their ability to reduce air pollutants, respirable particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter (PM10), and other toxins known to impact human health. One study demonstrated that a street row of birch trees removed greater than 50 percent of PM10 in adjacent indoor environments.1 Another study concluded that “judicious placement of grass, climbing ivy, and other plants in urban canyons can reduce the concentration at street level of NO2 by as much as 40 percent and PM by 60 percent.�2 So how do we bring this to our home landscape? Hackberries, lindens, elms, oaks, birches, and maples are some of the best trees to remove air pollutants. When planted on the south or west side of
buildings, their shade helps to mitigate summer heat and lower cooling costs. Well placed parks and trees have been shown to have a cooling effect that reaches well beyond their boundaries. On the other hand, trees may trap air pollutants under their canopy where air flow is limited by glass and concrete canyons. Here, green roofs and walls may help cool cities and improve air quality. Ivy and Virginia creeper have been covering walls for centuries. Their leaves are excellent at removing PM10 and shade buildings to reduce heat absorption. Where vines attaching directly to walls are unadvisable, hops, sweet autumn clematis, and other twining vines can clad buildings with simple green support systems. In addition to mitigating air pollution and cooling ambient air temperatures,
trees, green roofs, and gardens take up rainwater to protect lakes and waterways from excessive runoff.
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OUTDOOR CREATIV VE to provide potable water. Plastic tanks and expandable water bladders are also being integrated into decks and beneath patios to collect rainwater for irrigation and grey water. Similarly, catch basins are being designed under patios and driveways to reduce runoff and recharge groundwater. Rain gardens, trees, green roofs, and water harvesting structures all contribute to protecting our fresh water. Healthy Foods While large-scale hydroponic vertical growing systems and rooftop farms are just beginning to catch on in the United States, they hold the promise of a solution to the problem of a growing population and the consequent need to increase food production. Moving food production closer to city centers makes healthier foods more available and reduces transportation costs. Community and educational gardens are sprouting up all over and inspiring children and adults to grow, prepare, and eat fresh vegetables. Changing brownfields into community gardens is providing healthy food for low-income families and transforming neighborhoods. “The possibility that urban greenery and green infrastructure have positive effects (direct and indirect) on human health has been confirmed by more than three decades of psychology and ecology research exploring the relationship between nature contact and human well-being.”3 To keep our urban cities healthy we must design livable landscapes that meet human and planetary needs for a healthy environment. In addition to providing access and space for outdoor activity,
it’s imperative that green infrastructure be integrated into urban landscapes to ensure clean water, fresh air, and food security for all. Maher, B., Ahmed, I., Davison, B., Karloukovski, V., & Clark, R. (2013). Impact of roadside tree lines on indoor concentrations of traffic-derived particulate matter. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(23), pp. 137373-13744. 2 Pugh, T., Mackenzie, R., Whyatt, J., & Hewitt, N. (2012). Effectiveness of green infrastructure for improvement of air quality in urban street canyons. Environmental Science & Technology, 46(14), pp. 7692-7699. 3 Santamouris, M., Ban-Weiss, G., Osmond, P., Paolini, R., Synnefa, A., Cartalis, C., Muscio, A., Zinzi, M., Morakinyo, T., Ng, E., Tan, Z., Takebayashi, H., Sailor, D., Crank, P., Taha, H., Pisello, A., Rossi, F., Zhang, J., & Kolokotsa, D. (2018). Progress in urban greenery mitigation science – assessment methodologies advanced technologies and impact on cities. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 24(8), pp. 638-671. 1
Joan W. Ziegler is a horticulturist and garden designer and winner of the 2015 Perennial Plant Association Merit Award for Residential Landscape at ZDA, Inc. Landscape Architecture, 4797 Capitol View Road, Middleton. Call (608) 831-5098 or visit zdainc.com. Photographs provided by ZDA, Inc. Photograph by Betsy Haynes Photography
Fresh Water As cities and populations expand, water quality and water scarcity become more problematic. To address these challenges, buildings and landscapes are being designed to conserve clean water, recycle grey water, treat wastewater, and reduce runoff. In the Port of Portland building, a Living Machine installation utilizes striking inside plantings to provide advanced wastewater treatment and reduce water use by 75 percent. While exciting new technology using plants and solar energy to turn human feces into potable water may soon be available, time-tested methods of harvesting and storing are being revisited as a source for potable water.
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