E5 Our Thing Radio - Guests Lewis Ritter & Sonia Discher

Todays featured Guest LinksLewis Ritter:Turbulance (Amazon Link)Turbulance (Goodreads Link)Turbulance (Barnes & Noble Link)Welcome to Rutgers University, 1970. This New Jersey college campus, like others across the country, is a microcosm of the turbulent times that would transform America forever. This book centers on a group of students who must confront their personal, academic, and social challenges as the world around them take its first steps toward the 21st century.Danny Watkins is the student advisor to a dormitory full of freshman students. His driving passion is to graduate and become a famous journalist. He writes for the Daily Targum, the student newspaper. Standing in his way is Jim Morris, his mercurial editor, who doubts Danny’s ability to succeed, and assigns him stories that do not match his ability.After an important news story goes disastrously wrong, Danny is fired from the newspaper and loses his scholarship. He risks everything in a last gasp trip to NYC in an effort to recruit Abbie Hoffman, a controversial activist, to speak on the campus. If he fails, he must drop out of school and face being drafted to serve in the unpopular war in Vietnam.Through the eyes of these college students, we see the political and social upheaval that defined this decade: the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, and the sexual revolution. It was an era of peace, love, and war, and all three came together in universities like Rutgers.Sonia Discher:Sonia Discher – Author of Dealing with Early Onset Alzheimer'sYouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_Gq7Shc-YAmazon Link: Amazon.com : sonia discherDealing with Early Onset Alzheimer’s: Love, Laughter & Tears is Sonia Discher’s heartbreaking but empowering story of caring for her husband, Steve.The story follows Steve’s diagnosis with Early Onset Alzheimer’s through treatment, care and his passing. Sonia provides a look behind the curtain of this terrible sickness to reveal small and large things she did to understand the disease, advocate for her husband, care for her family and preserve her sanity throughout a confusing and sad time.The author achieves the goal of reminding readers that they are not alone. Not only does she lay out functional, day-to-day tips about early warning signs, medication levels, and how to address doctors, nurses and other professional caregivers (among many other areas such as long-term care and hospital stays) are some of the valuable examples included in this personal story. The Show:Gunner laments the time he robbed a famous celebrity.Crooks reports on the death of a Social Media influencer who specialized in gang activity.