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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.
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The Twist Podcast #129: Intersectionality, Pandemic Pandemonium, and the Deaths of Innocents
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at intersectionality, the ongoing pandemic, hot headlines, and the deaths of innocents.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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Street Noise Books Makes Noise with Inclusive, Queer, Feminist, and Marginalized Authors
I was browsing the Independent Book Publishers Association website (I’m a member) and I came across an interview with Liz Frances, founder of Street Noise Books. This is one to take note of for those of dedicated to inclusivity in publishing and writing. From the intro:
“One of IBPA’s core values is inclusivity, working towards a publishing industry where everyone can tell their story and find themselves in the content they read. Accordingly, from the moment we learned about the new independent publishing company Street Noise Books last year, we wanted to showcase their work. Not only is their mission to give a voice to marginalized communities but they also actively seek talent in untraditional ways.”
Read the interview to find why the mission of inclusivity, queerness, feminism and intersectionality are core values for Street Noise Books, and encounter the dedication and erudition of its founder. A fabulous read!
Stupid Black Girls: Essays from an African American
ByA provocative collection of narrative essays with a unique point of view.
In this book a first generation American New Yorker uses her bold voice to share life experiences through the lens of race, culture, and spirituality. Exploring topics ranging from night terrors, to schizophrenia, to gentrification, to the author’s personal September 11th story. Illustrated with stunning artwork created in response to the essays, this book is a unique collection.
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And the ‘Death by Pride’ Winners Are …
Congratulations to: Bill, Arthur, Jan, Carolyn, and Greg! Their Kindle editions of ‘Death by Pride: A Kyle Callahan Mystery‘ have been sent. I also sent out a thank you to the non-winners, with an offer of free audiobook codes to all, ’cause that’s they kind of guy I am.
Watch for July’s giveaway, 5 Kindle editions of ‘A House in the Woods.’ Join my email list and be the first to know about author updates and freebies, never spam, never annoying. Happy Pride everyone! – Mark
NEXT UP FOR A JULY GIVEAWAY:
A House in the Woods
Country Living is HellLaurel and Jeremy Calloway have longed for a new life away from the chaos and confusion of New York City. Driving along a country road in New Jersey with a young real estate agent in the back seat, they almost miss it: a small house in the woods for sale. Laurel immediately thinks this could be the house for them, the house of their dreams, where a simpler life awaits. Laurel can finish her debut novel. Jeremy can look for a job in Philadelphia just an hour away. Stopping to take a look at the property, they meet the house’s caretaker, Eileen, and within a few weeks they find themselves the very lucky owners of their ideal home. But who are the mysterious old couple who’d put the house up for sale, having moved out months ago? Is Eileen more than a friendly neighbor? Who are the townspeople they meet, who all seem aware of the young couple now living in the house in the woods? And is it the house of their dreams, or of their nightmares?
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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
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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.
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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
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A Killer Kindle Giveaway for Pride: 5 Copies of ‘Death by Pride’
I’ll be doing regular giveaways throughout the coming months. Since June is Pride month, let’s start with five (5) Kindle editions of ‘Death by Pride: A Kyle Callahan Mystery.’ This is the third book in the Pride Trilogy, and by many readers’ accounts the most chilling.Just use the RafflePress entry form above to enter, and remember to check your spam folder for the required confirmation! No muss, no fuss. Note: you must live in the U.S. to use these codes. Sorry, but for this particular giveaway I have to stick with the U.S. (Kindle rules). All entrants’ emails are kept confidential and you will NOT be added to my email list! But please consider subscribing HERE for occasional author updates and fabulous giveaways.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.