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Keeping the Spark AliveIntimate partnerships require care and tending to thrive - in many ways it's easier to douse the flames of love than it is to maintain them. How do you light your love fire?

Tune in for a conversation about one man's successful journey from trauma to recovery utilizing, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, or EMDR.

Betsey Nash is KCBX's Grape Nut, and she explores local wine vintages by tasting 5 years of Pinot Noirs. Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with the stars of the musical group War and Treaty- Michael and Tanya Trotter. Contributor Brian Reynolds speaks with the local author of the new book, "When San Luis Obispo Was Cow Heaven" Marilyn Darnell.

The city of Guadalupe is seeing revitalization due largely to a nonprofit collective called Los Amigos de Guadalupe. Tom Wilmer searches for ghosts aboard the Queen Mary. A local elected official is taking part in a national program to re-think the way cities are designed. Fr Ian visits a Morro Bay oyster farm.

We start with a look at San Luis Coastal School District bond Measure C-22. This is Media Literacy Week and you'll hear from Erin McNeill, founder of the non-profit Media Literacy Now. Orchestra Novo's Michael Novak talks about their upcoming performance,Show People, a silent movie with a live orchestra performance. The SLO Botanical Garden has something for everyone.

(air date 10-17-22) You'll hear from Kevin Carr, the author of the new book, Musician’s Guide to Marketing: Why Your Band Needs a Brand. Get an update on the growth of the Boys and Girls Clubs of mid-Central Coast. President Roosevelt's grandson Ford Roosevelt meets with KCBX's Tom Wilmer aboard FDR's presidential yacht, USS Potomac in the Oakland, California harbor.

KCBX's Grape Nut, Betsey Nash, explores the bubbly business of sparkling wine. DignityMoves is a non-profit organization working with the County of Santa Barbara to develop interim supportive housing villages. One Cool Earth provides educational gardening for local schools.

Foraging for mushrooms is a fun way to get exercise while hunting for food. However, with California's lack of rain, there are more mushroom graveyards than there are mushroom fields. Some have taken an entrepreneurial approach and are growing them in their homes. Note: if you forage in the wild, be sure it's legal to do so where you are looking.

The siege on Ukraine is an atrocity playing out before our very eyes. How are local Ukrainians coping? Canadian-Ukrainian Annie Capelli makes Ukrainian Borscht for Fr. Ian as she describes the scene in Ukraine that her family and friends are endeavoring to endure.

During the George Floyd Black Lives Matters Protests, food blogger and podcaster Jaime Lewis decided to remove from her deed the restriction that read: No person of any race other than a Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot. She worked with Race Matters SLO to document the process in a film titled "Restrictions Apply". Jaime and Race Matters SLO Executive Director Courtney Haile share their journey of racial justice since the completion of the film over a dinner of salad, paella and apple empanadas.