Bernard interviews Ted Wolfson of Team Ultimate, a nationally competitive professional paintball team. Ted's paintball team started out as a youth group for local students and has since evolved into one of the top-raked competitive paintball teams in the America. Although the team began as a Christian youth group, it is not exclusive to Christian youth nor is it exclusively male. While wishing to compete at the highest levels, Ted says, "Our goal is to help the kids grow into young adults so that they can become positive examples within society."

Are you still interested in acupuncture? If so, please join me on Tuesday, June 19, to hear my interview with the fascinating practitioner of Eastern medicine, Deborah Waddell. Ms. Waddell is the Director of Skylands Acupuncture & Wellness Center in Long Valley, New Jersey. Her center practices acupuncture, therapeutic massage therapy and holistic food counseling. To learn more about her practice, please visit http://www.skylandsacupuncture.com.

Bernards Guest is Monteen McCord, of Hawk Talk, Inc Monteen's passion is for birds of prey: raptors! She volunteers much of her personal time caring for orphaned and injured migratory birds, and specializes in raptors. Monteen rehabilitates and sends back to the wild those birds that she can and she uses the non-releasable birds for educational programs and lectures. She is passionate about raptors and the important role they have to play in our environment. Monteen is known as the "Hawk Lady" for obvious reasons! Don't miss this entertaining and interesting interview.

 Monteen's passion is for birds of prey: raptors! She volunteers much of her personal time caring for orphaned and injured migratory birds, and specializes in raptors. Monteen rehabilitates and sends back to the wild those birds that she can and she uses the non-releasable birds for educational programs and lectures. She is passionate about raptors and the important role they have to play in our environment. Monteen is known as the "Hawk Lady" for obvious reasons! Don't miss this entertaining and interesting interview.

Our guest is Fred Thompson, food writer, food stylist, culinary developer, and author of Barbeque Nation. Mr. Thompson has taken his passion for grilling on the road, traveling around America with a mission: to compile the very best backyard recipes. His book includes 350 diverse recipes for treats like "Joe's Corn on the Cob", "Mohammed's Flank Steak with North African Marinade", and everything in-between. I hope you will tune in for what promises to be mouth-watering interview.

James Kautz will be my guest on Following Your Passions this Tuesday, March 20th at 8 p.m. He is a 2006 Book of the Year finalist for the book Footprints Across the South: Bartram's Trail Revisited. This book guides you from the heart of Charleston, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. James Kautz travels five years along the path of William Bartram, a botanist from Philadelphia who explored the American Southeast in the 1770's. He compares the conditions at the time of the nation's founding with the current social and natural environment of today. If you wish to find more information about James Kautz's new book, please visit: http://www.kennesaw.edu/ksupress/bartramstrail.shtml

Ever wanted to cuddle a baby panda? My next guest does all the time!

Join me on Tuesday, February 27th at 8 p.m. as I interview Dr. Rebecca Snyder, curator of Giant Panda Research Management at the Atlanta Zoo. Dr. Snyder is passionate about giant panda bears! As a Georgia Tech doctoral student, Snyder spent two years studying giant pandas in China. In 1997, she was introduced to Lun Lun and Yang Yang, two giant panda infants, with whom, over the next ten years, she would develop a close relationship. Brought to the Atlanta Zoo on loan, these young cubs grew up together to become mature adults. Snyder and other researchers at the zoo had hoped that the two bears would eventually mate, but after two unsuccessful breeding seasons, the scientists took matters into their own hands. In April of 2006, Lun Lun was successfully artificially inseminated, and Atlanta waited with anticipation through Lun Lun's exciting pregnancy. This past September, Atlanta proudly became the birthplace of Mei Lan, one of the very few giant pandas born into captivity on American soil. Dr. Snyder now researches the close relationship between giant panda mothers and their cubs.

Join us for what should be a "warm and cuddly" conversation. If you would like to learn more about the pandas or Zoo Atlanta, please visit:

www.zooatlanta.org <http://www.zooatlanta.org> Those in the Sandy Springs area can listen to the radio station at 1620 AM; otherwise, the best way to listen to the program is to go online to www.radiosandysprings.com <http://www.radiosandysprings.com/>. Each week I look forward to sharing with you individuals who have found a passion in their lives. If you know of someone who has a passion in life and would make an interesting guest on the show, I welcome your suggestions.Incidentally, I have just returned from a most enjoyable weekend at the South Carolina Book Festival. If you would like to learn more about my passion, please visit my website at www.bethanyadventures.com <http://www.bethanyadventures.com>. Thank you for your continued support of Following Your Passions.

Join me for a strumming good time on Tuesday, March 6th at 8 p.m. as I

interview Ralph Luttrell, founder of Luttrell Guitars. Mr. Luttrell, a

founding member of the 1970's Atlanta-based bluegrass band, Possum Trot, now follows his passion not by playing resonator guitars, but by handcrafting and restoring them in his Sandy Springs shop. Luttrell has also passed his passion for music down to his daughter, Heather Luttrell, also an Atlanta-based musician.

Then on Tuesday, March 13th, listen in as I interview Ms. Jacqueline Woodson, an accomplished author of picture, children's and young adult books, as well being involved in the creation of Miracle's Boys, the T.V. miniseries. Ms. Woodson's passion for writing is limitless. After being published, awarded many times over, and printed in languages like Tagalog, Turkish, and Mandarin Chinese, Woodson answers the question "Do you think you'll ever stop writing?" with "When

I stop breathing."

Those in the Sandy Springs area can listen to the radio station at 1620 AM; otherwise, the best way to listen to the program is to go online to www.radiosandysprings.com <http://www.radiosandysprings.com/>. Each week I look forward to sharing with you individuals who have found a passion in their lives. If you know of someone who has a passion in life and would make an interesting guest on the show, I welcome your suggestions.If you would like to learn more about my passion, please visit my website at www.bethanyadventures.com <http://www.bethanyadventures.com>.