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“Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James With the 250th birthday of our nation in 2026, many gardens are cloaked in red, white, and blue. A top garden design trend this year is patio culture, and with the semiquincentennial front of mind, I call it star-spangled living. Most Americans love being outdoors, and summertime is our sandbox. Whether our patio is in the front, back, or side

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! Are you planning a road trip this summer? Where do you want to go and what do you want to see? National parks, famous stadiums, battlefields, concerts, a drive on Route 66? Tips on where to go and how to stay safe, healthy, and avoid scams. There are numerous new

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! In 1776, an independent nation was established…the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence was signed as this new country renounced kings, and Thomas Jefferson asserted that all people possess unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the

MIRACLE MOMENT® “To be a leader, you must be a reader.” Cynthia Brian A MESSAGE from Founder/Director, CYNTHIA BRIAN Cynthia Brian The ability to read is one of the most important and rewarding skills that a person can achieve. Since I grew up on a farm in a very rural area that didn’t offer pre-school, kindergarten, or activities for young children, I didn’t learn to read until I was seven years old in first grade. From my first understanding of letters and numbers, I was ho

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! The world seems to be talking about UFOs these days. Have you experienced an extraterrestrial being? With the administration releasing more information about sightings, it’s fun to think about other beings in other galaxies. Fellow author Alan Cohen, wrote a beau

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! Family is the feeling of coming home after a long day and knowing someone is happy to see you. It’s the late-night talks, the inside jokes no one else understands, and the small moments that slowly become lifelong memories. Family matters. Gas prices are high, inf

“What is a weed? A flower whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”~ Emerson Because of the late-season rains, the weeds have been overwhelming. I have been pulling, cutting, smothering, and eliminating “these flowers whose virtues have not yet been discovered” since early March. I’m now on my third round of weeding. Yes, many of the weeds have pretty flowers, including vetch, bindweed, cut leaf geranium, Italian thistle, euphorbia, hemlock, and a plethora of grasses. Dand

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! Cynthia Brian interviews author Lita Kurth about her book, Writing Memoir in Flashes which helps you tell your true stories. Whether you're a memoirist, a family historian, or an author who needs to write about yourself, this friendly book will help you get starte

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! Are AI Chatbots stealing your privacy? ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude could be helpful tools, but where does all the info you share go? Find out how to protect your privacy while using AI. Everyone encounters stress. Managing it is critical. Explore effectiv

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” · Robert Swan Why is conservation critical? Host Diya asks us to imagine life without clean water or wildlife. Conservation is one of our strongest defenses against climate change. Forests, oceans, and wetlands absorb enormous amounts of carbon dioxide, helping regulate Earth’s temperature. The food we eat depends on healthy soil, clean water, pollinators like bees, and stable weather pa

https://sites.libsyn.com/556617/bracing-for-summer-heat-and-learning-to-say-no Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! America is not prepared for extreme temperatures. This summer may be the hottest ever. Extreme heat is not recognized as a disaster in the USA, despite the fact that it is the greatest

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! It’s springtime, and besides being allergy season, it is also the beginning of tick season. Ticks bring many types of dangerous diseases. We take measures to avoid ticks while hiking, but how can we tick-proof our backyards? Find a few tips that will keep you heal

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” · Nelson Mandela The poverty-ridden country of Malawi was devastated by AIDS. Host Julia Howe interviews the founder of Jacaranda Foundation, Marie da Silva, a Malawian education activist with a powerful personal story. Auntie Marie was working as a nanny in the US when she heard the local school was closing in the midst of the brutal AIDS epidemic in Malawi. Marie lost more than a dozen fa

“If an herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere, so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.” Vita Sackville-West If you have ever had the delight of visiting Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, you will have experienced one of the most romantic and influential gardens of England. Novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat, politician, and author husband, Sir Harold George Nicolson, designed

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! A garden is a living canvas of colors, textures, scents, and wildness. May is a month of magical majesty in the garden. Experiment with new specimens, attract hummingbirds and bumblebees, and enjoy the parade of spectacular rose blooms. The Goddess Gardener, Cynth

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! Ghost tapping is the newest credit card fraud, where small, unfamiliar charges show up on a contactless payment card without a clear point of purchase. The amounts are easy to miss, but they can signal unauthorized access to your payment method rather than a simpl

“Become an active citizen through your wardrobe.” Livia Firth Today we're not talking about a bill, a ballot measure, or a party platform. We're talking about your closet. The fashion industry generates 92 million tons of textile waste annually. Host Julia Howe and reporter Hanna Yu tackle the tragedy of fast fashion and its environmental impact. Hanna focuses on the philosophy of this conspicuous consumption. Whose fault is it? Julia talks about TikTok Shop. What makes TikT

Tune into the upbeat, positive lifestyle broadcast where producer and host Cynthia Brian showcases strategies for success on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!®. Available wherever you listen to your favorite programs! Chief Seattle said, “The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.” We are responsible for protecting the planet. I lead with hope and will continue to focus on how we can be proactive in driving change. Humanity is our greatest tool. Let us act as sens

MIRACLE MOMENT® “The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.” Chief Seattle A MESSAGE from Founder/Director, CYNTHIA BRIAN I grew up on a farm where being sustainable was a way of life. We were dry farmers, which meant that the fields were irrigated solely by the rainfall. Water was a precious commodity, and after many years, my dad and brothers built a reservoir to collect the precipitation. We recycled, reused, repurposed, remade. We saved seeds to plant the he

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” Ray Bradbury Radio hosts Julia Howe and Saanvi Phaneendra take us to outer space via AI. Today, we are diving into one of the most exciting things happening in space exploration. Humanity is not just visiting other worlds; we are planning to live on them. And AI is right at the center of making that happen. NASA is not trying to repeat Apollo. The explicit goal is to go to the Moon and stay there, building up to a perma