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The Twist Podcast #134: Rick at the DNC, QAnon Crazy, Going Postal, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take an inside look at the DNC, QAnon crazy, the attack on the Postal Service, and the week in headlines.
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Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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Dave Hughes of Retire Fabulously: 50 Things You Can Do During the Pandemic
The following is reprinted with permission from RetireFabulously.com
By Dave Hughes
RetireFabulously.com
The most popular article on RetireFabulously.com has been the mega-list of 100 Things You Can Do After You Retire. After all, there’s no reason to be bored after you retire.Unfortunately, during the COVID-19 pandemic, some of those activities aren’t feasible because they involve interacting with groups of people in potentially unsafe situations.
But don’t despair! The glass is still half full. Half of the things on that list are still doable during these stay-at-home, socially distanced times.
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The Savvy Senior: How to Keep a Watchful Eye on an Aging Parent
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
Can you recommend any services or technology that help me monitor my elderly mother who lives alone? Since the coronavirus pandemic started last March, my sister and I have noticed that my mom’s health has slipped a bit, so we would like to find something that helps us keep tabs on her when we’re not around.
Concerned Daughter
Dear Concerned
Depending on how closely you want to monitor your mother, and what she’s comfortable with as well, there are check-in call services along with some new monitoring technology devices you can turn to for help. Here are several to consider.
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The Twist Podcast #133: Interpreting Trump, October Surprises, Generation Tech, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at the trope of the October surprise, technology across the generations, and this week’s hellish headlines.
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Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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August Giveaway: 5 Kindle Editions of ‘Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’
Congratulations to Julia, David, Eric, Yvonne and Melanie, the five lucky winners of July’s giveaway!.. Each of them received a complimentary Kindle edition of my supernatural chiller, ‘A House in the Woods.’We’re into August now, and that means … another fabulous giveaway! Just enter the RafflePress giveaway with your email, and I’ll draw 5 lucky winners at random on August 31. Be sure to click the confirmation link you receive! Check your spam folder so you don’t miss it.
About ‘Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’
“In Black Cat White Paws, recently widowed Maggie Dahl finds herself faced with challenges on all fronts: life alone in a new town, running a business she and her husband had dreamed of and started together, and now pursuing a killer. Her sister Gerri moves from Philadelphia to Lambertville, New Jersey, to support her sister and start a new life of her own. Together the women search for a murderer, helped in critical ways by their neighbor’s cat. A black cat with white paws. A cat whose independence sets it all in motion and sees it through to the end.
Black Cat White Paws finds Maggie moving from New York City to Lambertville, an idyllic river town with artists, restaurants, incredible landscapes, and enough local characters to populate a murder mystery. Join Maggie, Gerri, Checks the cat, and a cast of colorful small town natives just as eager—and as shocked—to find a killer in their midst.”
Prefer to listen? Check out the audiobook edition of Black Cat White Paws, narrated by the wonderful Holly Palance.
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The Twist Podcast #132: Pennies from Hell, B is for Black, and Headlines from the End Times
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at the uselessness of pennies, capitalizing Black, what got under our skins this week, and more fun headlines from the End Times.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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Dave Hughes of Retire Fabulously: How to Make the Best of Retirement in the Pandemic
The following is reprinted with permission from RetireFabulously.com
By Dave Hughes
It’s July 21, 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been raging for at least four months now.I hope you are doing well and staying safe and sane, to the greatest extent possible.
Aside from the immediate impacts of the pandemic, many other aspects of your life have been upended and changed in one way or another. Many businesses are suffering, but some are booming. People are eating out less, working from home, driving less, buying more of some things and less of others, and so on. Almost every aspect of “normal” has been disrupted.
If you are not retired yet, your work situation has probably changed. You may be working from home or even furloughed. Depending on your line of work, you may be working extra hours.
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The Twist Podcast #131: F is for Fascist, Dollar Gun Tree, Hellish Headlines and More
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at fascist fashions from Portland to Chicago, the explosion of casual gun violence, this week’s headlines from hell, and much more!
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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The Savvy Senior: Can I Stop Social Security if I Go Back to Work?
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
I lost my job last month because of the coronavirus crisis. With little savings, I’ve been thinking about starting my Social Security benefits early to help me get by. But my question is, if I find a new job can I stop my Social Security benefits and restart them at a later date so they can continue to grow?
Almost 63
Dear Almost,
Yes, there are actually two ways you can stop your Social Security retirement benefits (once you’ve started collecting them) and restart them at a later date, which would boost your benefits. But in order to do this certain rules and conditions must be met. Here are your options.
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Book Review: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookwork“Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.
c.2020, Simon and Schuster
$28.00 / $37.00 Canada 227 pagesYou hadn’t seen that container in ages.
You really can’t remember when you put it on the shelf. Sometime this year, six years ago, when you moved last? What’s in it must be worth something, though, or you wouldn’t’ve saved it. Now, as in the new book “Too Much and Never Enough” by Mary L. Trump, PhD, digging may yield answers.
No one has to explain to you who Donald Trump is but, for anyone who’s been completely out of the loop, Mary Trump is Donald’s niece (she uses his first name, always, and to avoid confusion, so will we). Trump has a PhD in psychology, worked at Manhattan Psychiatric Center while in school, was once a therapist, and taught graduate psychology. The point is, she’s got chops and it shows, especially when this book – a look at her family and, specifically, her Uncle Donald – reads like something from the True Medicine genre. Indeed, medically-based passages are nearly emotionless in their clinicality.
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The Twist Podcast #131: F is for Fascist, Dollar Gun Tree, Hellish Headlines and More
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at fascist fashions from Portland to Chicago, the explosion of casual gun violence, this week’s headlines from hell, and much more!
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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‘This is How It Starts’: Lincoln Project Takes on Trump’s Storm Trooper Tactics
Another excellent hit job from The Lincoln Project, this one taking aim at Trump’s and his consigliere Bill Barr’s Storm Trooper tactics. With his American Brownshirts, Trump is testing to see how easy it would be to take over the cities and the nation. We can’t let them.
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The Savvy Senior: Can I Stop Social Security if I Go Back to Work?
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
I lost my job last month because of the coronavirus crisis. With little savings, I’ve been thinking about starting my Social Security benefits early to help me get by. But my question is, if I find a new job can I stop my Social Security benefits and restart them at a later date so they can continue to grow?
Almost 63
Dear Almost,
Yes, there are actually two ways you can stop your Social Security retirement benefits (once you’ve started collecting them) and restart them at a later date, which would boost your benefits. But in order to do this certain rules and conditions must be met. Here are your options.