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Media Opportunities At The Deer & Turkey Expo

By The Bonnier Corporation

* Wild Mushroom Cooking: How to cook morel mushrooms, something that is popular with a lot of people.
* Wild Game Cooking: How to butcher venison and make jerky.
* Flint-Knapping: See Stone Age arrowheads, knives and spear points made; products are utilitarian and works of art.
* Chainsaw Carving: Hand-carved wood art with a chainsaw.
* Trophy Big Game Contest: Can show lots of big buck mounts and also talk about what a “score” is for a mount. We have official measures available to show how to properly score a deer and what exactly it all means.

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Posted on February 18, 2015

Data Geek vs. Data Cynic: On Becoming A Parent

By Kiljoong Kim and Natasha Julius

First in an occasional series.
Kiljoong Kim is the Beachwood’s sociologist-in-residence. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and works as a policy analyst at Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. He believes all data has a story to tell. Natasha Julius has nothing against data, she just doesn’t want to hear any data stories when she’s trying to get her kid to bed.
Data Cynic: I have no idea how long your baby will sleep.

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Posted on February 17, 2015

A Beachwood Radio Special Edition: Diary Of A Lost Pregnancy

By Steve Rhodes with Natasha Julius

On September 17, 2014, Natasha Julius went for a routine 8-week prenatal check-up. It was the only routine thing she would do for more than two months. During this time, she e-mailed a small group of people. Those e-mails – 11 in total – became the basis of the series Diary Of A Lost Pregnancy. At the conclusion of that series last week, we talked about both the experience of a lost pregnancy and the experience of writing about it.

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Posted on February 9, 2015

Diary Of A Lost Pregnancy, Postscript: Here Is What I Suggest

By Natasha Julius

On September 17, 2014, I went for a routine 8-week prenatal check-up. It was the only routine thing I would do for more than two months.
During this time, I e-mailed a small group of people. Some were aware of the pregnancy, some had plans with me that would need to be broken, and still others simply asked after my health on the wrong day. This is the postscript to those 11 messages.
February 4, 2015
Dear Friends,
I promised to write an ending to this story, but it turns out I don’t know how. Because every story starts with a question, it is expected to end with an answer. I haven’t got one.
When I began writing in September, the question seemed straightforward: How am I going to get through this? What I’ve discovered in the past few months is that I’m not. There is no “through this” to get. My second pregnancy contains a void, the contours of which are unknown and unknowable. While the crisis is over, the potential for questions will always exist and I will always find myself lacking for answers.
The question now seems to be, how do I live with this? This story has to become a part of my life, something I can carry with me that fits and makes sense. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting closer. It starts with finding a way to talk about it.

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Posted on February 5, 2015

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