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Academy of American Poets: Poems for LGBTQ Pride Month
June 2018Poems for LGBTQ Pride Month
This June, celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month with poems by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer writers past and present, including these to read and share:“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
“When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further
Possibilities” by Chen Chen
“A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg
“Survival Guide” by Joy Ladin
“The Tree Sparrows” by Joseph O. Legaspi
“Senior Discount” by Ali Liebegott
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
“Double Exposure” by May Swenson -
The Savvy Senior: How To Find Retiree Travel Perks
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
What types of travel discounts are available to older travelers? I just retired and am interested in learning about travel deals for people over 60.
Ready To Go
Dear Ready,
There are literally thousands of different travel-related discounts available to retirees that usually start anywhere between the ages 50 and 65. These discounts – typically ranging between 5 and 25 percent off – can add up to save you hundreds of dollars on your next trip. Here’s how you can find them.
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The Savvy Senior: How to Find Retiree Travel Perks
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
What types of travel discounts are available to older travelers? I just retired and am interested in learning about travel deals for people over 60.
Ready To Go
Dear Ready,
There are literally thousands of different travel-related discounts available to retirees that usually start anywhere between the ages 50 and 65. These discounts – typically ranging between 5 and 25 percent off – can add up to save you hundreds of dollars on your next trip. Here’s how you can find them.
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EVENTS: Author Sue Katz Reading and Speaking: From Pioneer to Elder, Arlington Library, June 28 (Arlington, MA)
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Grace Anne Stevens Launches ‘Boomers – Forever Young’ Facebook Project
Author, activist and inspiration Grace Anne Stevens is launching a new Facebook group for boomers, to include an upcoming Facebook Live podcast. Like the page when you have a chance, and join in the conversation.
From the Boomers – Forever Young Welcome Home Page
Welcome to the home page for Boomers-Forever Young.
Our generation has lived through the most amazing of times. For each and every one of us to still be around, means that we have acquired knowledge and experience which i say definition of wisdom and have truly become the hero of our own life.
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Travel Time: Vienna Travelogue, by Sue Katz
Reprinted with permission from Sue Katz’s Consenting Adult Blog
By Sue Katz
All photos courtesy of Sue Katz
May 15, 2018Because in the last election, the neo-Nazis became part of the ruling coalition, I decided that I wanted to see gorgeous Vienna one last time before it tilted any further towards fascism. I have been in Vienna two or three times before, but not since the 90s. I find a three-bedroom Airbnb with a rather parsimonious landlady (“Look it up on the internet” was her answer to any question – whether about the phone number of a taxi company or the location of recommended local restaurants). Two friends join me: Jaya, the sculptor from Italy and Sandy, the paper artist from the California redwoods.
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Elderville Offers Wide Variety of Online Resources for Elders
There’s a new elder in town! Founded by Elmer George, Elderville does a terrific job of providing information and resources for elders, seniors, and all of us in the aging population.
Elderville.org is a resource guide for everything related to seniors. We connect you to reliable sources on the internet so you don’t have to spend time searching. We have safety tips for your daily activities, and resources that range from healthcare to volunteering.
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
From Steve Hayes/Tired Old Queen at the Movies
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut star Lewis Milestone’s classic noir; “The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers” (’46). Filled with fabulous performances, an ending worthy of James M. Cain, and loaded with murder, mayhem and fabulous plot twists, it’s a trip down the dark side you won’t soon forget. Catch Steve and Johnny in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at Red House Performing Arts Center in Syracuse, NY, May 31st – June 10th, 2018 TICKETS: http://www.theredhouse.org/la-cage-au…
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Digging the Zennis
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Gay Travelers Magazine: Provincetown – Where LGBTQ+ Can Be Themselves
Reprinted with permission from Gay Travelers Magazine
By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
Provincetown, Massachusetts stands out in history as not only the first place where the Pilgrims landed, it is constantly evolving to accept those who seek refuge, a place to be free and a place to be themselves. We asked locals to give us the inside scoop on the past, present and future of LGBTQ+ Provincetown.
How would you describe Provincetown in one sentence?
From Tony Fuccillo, Director of Tourism:
Provincetown is a place where you feel you can truly be proud of being gay; all LGBTQ+, yes everyone is welcome in Ptown and can be themselves when they are here without any judgment from anyone.
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Book Review: Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs, by Jason Porath
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez“Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs” by Jason Porath
c.2018, Dey Street $24.99 / $31.00 Canada
244 pagesYour mom is tough as nails.
The minute you were placed in her arms, she became your personal warrior, cheerleader, and banker. She remembers the good things you did and (sigh) the dumb things you tried. She pretends to forget why she ever gave you That Look. And in the new book “Tough Mothers” by Jason Porath, you’ll meet other women just like her.
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Travel Time: What Venice Taught Me, by Sandra de Helen
Sandra de Helen, photo by Bev Standish Travel Time is a regular feature at LGBTSr, highlighting destinations, travel suggestions and travelogues for the LGBTQ traveler.
What Venice Taught Me
By Sandra de HelenThe only place outside the United States my mom dreamed of visiting was Venice, Italy. She was entranced by this city built on water. As for me, I wanted to go everywhere, see everything. But we were working class poor, living in rural Missouri. We became even poorer when my father died at age forty-two leaving my mom who was nine years younger with two little girls, one of who wasn’t quite two years old. I was the other daughter, and I was seven. Any traveling we did was through reading. Every book offered another world. I spent my childhood dreaming of those worlds.
My first trip out of state was to New Orleans. I was eighteen. At twenty-one, I flew to Alaska and stayed for two months. Later that year I moved to Texas. Over the next decade, I lived in Alaska, Kansas, Arizona, and Missouri again. By the age of thirty-two, I had visited seventeen states. I was ready to go to Europe. When my credit union offered a chartered trip to Seefeld, Austria for only five hundred dollars for eight days, I placed a down payment and invited a friend to join me.
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Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: A Poem and a Plant
Photo by Sue Hardesty By Lee Lynch
The Amazon Trail: A Poem and a PlantThe day was typical for the Pacific Northwest. The brightening sky had stopped sputtering its fine dewdrops for the moment, the wind had blown itself out, and the development where I live came to life. People took advantage of the disappearing dreariness to walk their dogs, scurry to our centrally located mailboxes, or meet their step goals.
I dropped off a copy of New York Magazine in the common room. The cover quoted Melissa Shusterman, who’s running for the Pennsylvania state legislature. “My 16-year-old turned to me after the election and he said, ‘America doesn’t want a smart, qualified woman in office.’ By Friday, I was running.”
