-
Book Review: 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life, by Elizabeth White
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm
55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life, by Elizabeth White
c.2020 in paperback, Simon & Schuster
$17.00 / $23.00 Canada 272 pagesYour last regular paycheck has come and gone.
That was awhile ago, back before you were downsized / laid off / reassigned right out of a job and you’re not sure what to do. Your savings are nearly gone, your retirement funds are next, and you’re too young to get Social Security. In 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal” by Elizabeth White, you’ll see how to make this new life work.
-
What’s Cooking: Zucchini Bread from the Garden
What’s Cooking is a feature at LGBTSr highlighting easy, delicious recipes. Have a recipe to share? Email us at: recipes @ lgbtsr.com
Among my proudest achievements is our vegetable garden, built from scratch with raised beds, and fencing to keep out the deer and rabbits. We grow tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, herbs, and zucchini. So much zucchini! What do you do with it all? Well, one thing you can do is make zucchini bread and muffins. Here’s a recipe I’ve used from Allrecipes. It’s easy and delicious, and it looks like you worked a lot harder than you really did. -
The Savvy Senior: Simple Gadgets That Can Help Older Drivers
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
Are there any specific auto gadgets you can recommend that can help senior drivers? Both of my parents are in there eighties and still pretty good drivers, but due to arthritis and age they’re very stiff, which causes them some driving problems.
Researching Daughter
Dear Researching,
To help keep senior drivers safe and prolong their driving years, there’s a plethora of inexpensive, aftermarket vehicle adaptions you can purchase that can easily be added to your parent’s vehicles to help with many different needs. Here are some good options.
-
The Twist Podcast Pride Edition: Tumble in Tulsa, Branding Brouhahas, and Not My Heritage!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look a the continuing importance of Pride, the brouhaha over brand names, Republican chicanery, NASCAR, Tulsa’s coronapalooza, and saying good riddance to a heritage that isn’t ours (so there).
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
-
The Savvy Senior: What to Know About Advance Care Planning in the Age of Coronavirus
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
All this horrible coronavirus carnage got me thinking about my own end-of-life decisions if I were to get sick. Can you recommend some good resources that can help me create a living will or advance directive, or other pertinent documents? I’ve put it off long enough.
Almost 70
Dear Almost,
Creating a living will (also known as an advance directive) is one of those things most people plan to do, but rarely get around to actually doing. Only about one-third of Americans currently have one. But the cold hard reality of the novel coronavirus may be changing that. Here’s what you should know along with some resources to help you create an advance directive.
-
Steve Hayes: Tired Old Queen a the Movies – Tea and Sympathy
From Steve Hayes – Tired Old Queen at the Movies
Watch TEA AND SYMPATHY now! https://amzn.to/3hJg4Dp Deborah Kerr and John Kerr reprise their original Broadway roles as a boy struggling with his identity and the kindly wife of a teacher who helps him cope in Vincente Minnelli’s tender and beautiful screen adaptation of TEA AND SYMPATHY (’56). With a screenplay by the playwright, Robert Anderson, Leif Erickson, Darryl Hickman, Norma Crane and Edward Andrews round out the supporting cast of this tender and for its time, controversial drama. A classic of gay cinema.
-
The Twist Podcast #127: Hooray for ‘Hollywood,’ Opening State Jitters, and SCOTUS Rainbow Sprinkles
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we peek out of lockdown, chat about Ryan Murphy’s fabulous ‘Hollywood’ fantasy, and celebrate the Supreme Court’s super gay decision.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
-
Featured Book: Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, by Samantha Allen
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By Samantha Allen
Print Length: 321 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 5, 2019)Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she’s a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn’t changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called “flyover country” rather than moving to the liberal coasts.
-
Featured Book: Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, by Samantha Allen
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By Samantha Allen
Print Length: 321 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 5, 2019)Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she’s a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn’t changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called “flyover country” rather than moving to the liberal coasts.
-
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of LGBTQ Workplace Protections
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court, voting 6-3, declared that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes LGBTQ people in prohibiting discrimination based on sex.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the key federal law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees from being disciplined, fired or turned down for a job based on their sexual orientation.
Two of the court’s Republican appointees, Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts, joined the court’s Democratic appointees to deliver the surprising 6-3 victory to LGBT advocates.
Writing for the court’s majority, Gorsuch accepted arguments that the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment also effectively banned bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity, even though few if any members of Congress thought they were doing that at the time.
-
The Twist Podcast #126: Mark Returns to Co-Host, TV and Food Trends, Lockdown Blues, and America in the Mirror
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as Mark returned to co-host duties. We talk TV and food trends, end of the lockdown, and America in the mirror.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Spotify, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2019 MadeMark Publishing
-
7 Myths About Face Masks (AARP)
Myth 1: You don’t need to wear a face mask if you don’t feel sick.
This was the prevailing advice at the beginning of the pandemic, but not anymore. Experts have learned more about the coronavirus and how it spreads, and now the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is that everyone — including people who feel perfectly healthy — should wear a face covering in public settings where it may be difficult to maintain at least 6 feet of space from other people. Think: grocery stores, pharmacies, retail shops, hair salons, crowded parks and more.
The reason? It’s an added layer of protection. The virus is thought to spread easily between people who are in close contact with one another by respiratory droplets produced when an infected person talks, coughs or sneezes. And because some infected people might be presymptomatic or even asymptomatic, and as such are at risk of unknowingly spreading the virus to others, a face mask provides “an extra layer to help prevent the respiratory droplets from traveling in the air and onto other people,” the CDC says.People who feel sick should stay home and not venture out in public. That said, they should wear a face mask when interacting with family members or caregivers at home.
-
Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: A Personal Silver Lining
Photo by Sue Hardesty By Lee Lynch
I thought there could be no good news.
Not in the midst of a pandemic and the mass selfishness that hastens and continues its spread.
Not when the abiding depth of U.S. racism bubbles to the surface without shame or remedy.
Not when the vainglorious puppet of the far right “that struts and frets his hour upon the stage” continues to assault everything we’ve done right as a country and tout as successful every evil we continue to perpetrate.