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Johnson Carol Brown Sylvia Martirosyan Sophie Kim p. 46 Lia Limón Martirosyan Josh Pate, PhD Maya Sabatello, PhD, JD Karina Ulrike Sturm hEAlTh EdiTOrS Moses deGraft-Johnson, MD Larry Goldstein, MD Tulsi Gabbard p. 36 John Lawson p. 28 CONTribuTiNg WriTErS Ashley Fiolek ASHLEY — Quick Trip to London Eileen Grubba 8 Geri Jewell Regina Hall Myles Mellor (Crossword Puzzle) 10 HUMOR — Travel Hell Paul Pelland (Long Haul Paul) David Zimmerman WEb EdiTOrS 12 CHINA’S — Wei Wei Photographer Marge Plasmier Mary Shafizadeh Bob Williams (Interactive Puzzle) 18 LONG HAUL PAUL — A Crab Shoot MulTi-MEdiA Karina Ulrike Sturm grAphiC ArT / illuSTrATiON PROJECT LIFESAVER — Finding Dementia Wonderers 24 Scott Johnson Melissa Murphy (Medical Illustration) 28 JOHN LAWSON — Actor, Pilot, Scuba Instructer, Advocate... phOTOgrAphy Wang Lu Toby Forrest Paul Pelland 36 TULSI GABBARD — Running for President and Worth a Listen Nancy Villere TrANSCripTiONiST 45 TBI — Bomb Blast Effect Sandy Grabowski TrANSlATOr Jing Hu SOPHIE KIM — We found her for Netflix: The Healing Powers of Dude 46 MArkETiNg/prOMOTiONS SOCiAl MEdiA Lia Limón Martirosyan MARC JORDAN — Song Writer with Dyslexia 56 Shelly Rohe Tamay Shannon AbiliTyJObS.COM ABILITY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE 66 Sabrina Bertucci Vicky Dupree Marge Plasmier 70 EVENTS AND MORE Casey Mims Yesmeen Mikhail EdiTOriAl CONTENTS [email protected] AdvErTiSiNg diSTribuTiON COrpOrATE ShippiNg publiShEr / EdiTOr-iN-ChiEf For advertising Faxon-RoweCom Library Services ABILITY Magazine information e-mail Ebsco - Library Services 8941 Atlanta Ave. Chet Cooper [email protected] Swets Blackwell Huntington Beach, CA 92646 949.854.8700 Tel 949.854.8700 ABILITY Magazine is published bimonthly by CR Cooper The views expressed in this issue may 8941 Atlanta Ave. HB, CA 92646 (ISSN 1062-5321) All Rights Reserved not be those of ABILITY Magazine Membership: $29.70 per 1 year (6 issues) Send address changes to ABILITY Magazine, Attention: Subscriptions Manager Library of Congress PO Box 10878, Costa Mesa, CA 92627; Tulsi Gabbard Issue Feb/Mar 2020 Washington D.C. ISSN 1062-5321 Published in USA © Copyright 1990-2020 ABILITY Magazine TOC-Tulsi-Gabbard-qxp_TOC Brewer 9-24a 2/9/20 8:41 PM Page 5 Ashley-2020_Ashley 7-20v 2/10/20 6:56 PM Page 6 rrrr this winter has been really weird in Florida! our phones and exchanged money then took advantage First we had record breaking “warm” dayʼs for Jan- of Wifi because we didnʼt know what to expect at the uary now we have freezing temps, itʼs amazing we hotel. are all not sick — oh and of course there is still lots of pollen in lovely Florida! The hotel was perfect and we decided to just walk everywhere and not Uber or take a car. One of the I picked up my new dayʼs we walked 3.5 miles to this pasta restaurant, I Huskys recently, but thought I was going to pass out! Iʼm not built for walk- have not had the ing just riding! Luckily the food was definitely worth it chance to ride, we and I would make that walk again if I had too. It is had some sad family strange, but we had the best fried chicken sandwiches news, then it was the and burgers over there you wouldnʼt think so, but the Christmas season. food was amazing! And my brother turned 16! He wanted We tried a whole bunch of new cocktails too, for some to go to the Hard reason a lot of them came in glasses shaped like birds? Rock casino for his Not sure what that means :-) birthday so he could watch us play Black- My brother is super hard to buy for, he is really picky, Jack haha, I think he so we were scouring London trying to find the perfect wants to be a card gift for him for two days! We finally spotted a Vans shark when he grows store (he loves Vans) it was huge. We went in and we up. On our way back both saw the perfect shirt at the same time! I was so from the casino we excited to give it to him, it had Vans/London on it, but stopped and picked the colors were red white and blue, super cool. up my dadʼs Christ- mas gift, a new One bar we went to is famous for their Mirror Margari- English Bulldog tas. It tastes just like a really good margarita, but it is puppy, he is a pistol perfectly clear! It kind of blows your mind because it but super cute it is looks like water, but tastes like a Margarita! It is the hard to stay mad at number one margarita in Lon- him. don and number 7 in the world! I brought a bottle of My girlfriend and I headed over to London last week, it them home for my mom. was our Christmas gift to each other. We have been Well, that is all for my winter before, but this time we wanted to do the trip like adventures! Iʼm starting to get “locals” and not as tourists. I planned out and found the my summer school schedule best cocktail places and food finds. On our way out we finalized now. 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