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Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: Remember Summer?
Photo by Sue Hardesty By Lee Lynch
The Amazon Trail: Remember Summer?I mean serious summer. When the season was all fireflies and sandcastles, ice cream trucks and taking the train to visit relatives for two whole weeks. It was hours of reading, amusement parks, and hitting tennis balls against the apartment building next door for hours. It was the public swimming pool and cool sheets for sunburns and the ice cream truck. It was freedom.
I’m not exactly sure what happened, or at what age summertime was stolen away, but it sure ain’t what it used to be.
I am not a social person and I don’t have the energy I had when I played vigorous games of handball (with myself) at the P.S. 20 playground once school let out in June. These days, an interview fries me. My summer started with 3 of them in two weeks. The interviewers were terrific and the subjects dear to my heart. In one of them, I talked with Natasha Frost about what pulp novels meant to us: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lesbian-pulp-fiction-ann-bannon.
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Grace Anne Stevens: My Transgender Life – Perhaps Parallel Lines Do Meet
Grace Anne Stevens Editor’s Note: I’m excited to welcome Grace Anne Stevens as a new contributor. Grace’s voice is unique, necessary, and a fabulous addition to LGBTSr. – Mark/Editor
By Grace Anne Stevens
My Transgender Life: Perhaps Parallel Lines Do MeetLife is full of change and transitions. This is just one of those universal constants, that even if we forget to apply it to understand our life’s journeys, still takes effect. It applies to each of us, and there is nothing at all we can do about it.
As a transgender woman, there has been that moment of transition, or perhaps I should use a capital T…. and call it… Transition, that to most people like me, makes that moment, let’s say, momentous.
The entire concept of changing or transitioning genders comes with a pretty large suitcase of emotions for those doing it and is so often shared with everyone in connection with them. For many, that suitcase may never empty out, and is carried with them year after year.
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‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ a BookBub Featured Deal July 8, 9, 10
SAVE THE DATES! My latest mystery, Murder at the Paisley Parrot, is scheduled as a BookBub Featured Deal for July 8, 9, 10. Included in the 3-day deal will be all 7 mysteries and thrillers at just .99 cents! I’ll also be scheduling my newest, Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery, for release on July 8, with the option to pre-order before that at the reduced price of $1.99 (regularly $4.99). Look for an announcement on that soon.Wait, there’s more! I’ll also be offering the first four chapters of Black Cat White Paws subscribers only, with a download from Book Funnel. Look for links to everything in the next email soon.
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Cool Karen Paints a Planter (Atlantic City)
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The Twist Podcast #67: Survival Pride, the Positive Life, and America Gets a Monarchy
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we twist the headlines, take a look at Pride in the age of Trump, living poz-itively, and the arrival of an American monarchy.Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
Copyright 2018 MadeMark Publishing
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The Twist Podcast #67: Survival Pride, the Positive Life, and America Gets a Monarchy
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we twist the headlines, take a look at Pride in the age of Trump, living poz-itively, and the arrival of an American monarchy.Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
Copyright 2018 MadeMark Publishing
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EVENTS: Pennsylvania Department of Aging to Host LGBTQ Aging Summit, October 9-10 (Harrisburg, PA)
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Book Review: Hype: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice, by Nina Shapiro, MD with Kristin Loberg
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez“Hype: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice –
How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Not” by Nina Shapiro, MD with Kristin Loberg
c.2018, St. Martin’s Press $26.99 / $34.99 Canada 304 pagesFor the last few days, you’ve had a tickle in your throat.
It’s not much, just a hrrumph that’s gone from occasional to annoying. You’ve looked it up online and, well, it’s either allergies, a cold, or you’re going to die. But, as author Nina Shapiro, MD says in her new book, “Hype” (with Kristin Loberg), be careful what you think you know.
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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
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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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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.
