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Good Morning, Portland ME
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Book Review: The Royal Art of Poison, by Eleanor Herman
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez“The Royal Art of Poison” by Eleanor Herman
c.2018, St. Martin’s Press $27.99 / $36.50 CanadaIt must’ve been the salad.
You had three helpings of Aunt Rudy’s famous family reunion contribution and it sure tasted good. Until later that night and then… not so good for the rest of the weekend and into Monday. It must’ve been the salad because, as in The Royal Art of Poison, by Eleanor Herman, you spent awhile on the throne.
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Author Michael Nava Discusses Character Portrayals with Actors in ‘Henry Rios’ Podcast
Author Michael Nava’s iconic and seminal Henry Rios mystery series is now a podcast. In this clip you can see Nava interviewing actor Cameron LaBrie.
Watch all of the author’s interviews with series actors at his YouTube channel.
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Surprise Anniversary Dinner at Marsha Brown (New Hope)
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Rainbow Mountain Resort Still Has It: 5 Stars
This one’s for you, John Higgins“What I’ve always liked about Rainbow Mountain is that it attracts an older crowed. I’ll be 60 this year, and even though you’ll find plenty of young Qs there, it’s still a comfortable place to be older or, if you dare, old, and not feel like you’re on a gay cruise with thongs fluttering everywhere among a sea of pecs.”
I used to do restaurant reviews on my blog about a decade ago, giving them a ‘Yum’ rating (5 Yums was a must go, 2 was a stay away, 1 was a call an ambulance). I’m not crazy about stars, but I like them just a little better than thumbs. When I resume my restaurant reviews, look for those Yums to make a comeback.
That said, I’m giving Rainbow Mountain 5 stars, up, sideways, in the rearview mirror, whichever way you approach it. This LGBTQ-centric resort has been around since 1981 and, along with its fascinating history, it has a spirit you just can’t keep down.
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Phase One of the Jolly Good Soda Campaign Nears Completion
One of the best things about this year has been the chance to work again with my longtime collaborator Rick Rose (co-host of our semi-weekly Twist Podcast). I was hired to write the scripts for Jolly Good’s re-introduction campaign, and it’s been a blast. The Jolly Good Joke Jam has declared a winner, but you’ll have to keep watching the videos to find out which of these amazing comic-slash-sodas was crowned the funniest by America’s voters. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE CAN-TESTANTS AT JOLLY GOOD.
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New Website, New Cover Image
I’m getting used to a lot of new things: new website, new editing look and functions in WordPress (which I think I’ll eventually love), and a new image I made for the banner. The photo’s not new – it was taken by my friend Amy Mayes (AmyMayesPhotography.com), and I blended it with a clouded landscape. I love the full photo, but I wasn’t able to resize it so you could see the whole thing in the site banner. I’ve added it to the sidebar instead, just because I think it’s kind of awesome.
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Dave Hughes: Let’s Let’s Skip the Silly Euphemisms and Embrace Our Age
Guest Post by By Dave Hughes, RetireFabulously.com
“I will never refer to myself as XX years young and expect others not to, either.
There is no shame in being old so let’s not manufacture it with patronizing crap like that.”That bold declaration was posted by my friend, author Mark McNease (publisher of lgbtSr.org and the editor of my two books) recently on Facebook.
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Rainbow Mountain Getaway
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Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: What?
By Lee Lynch
The Amazon Trail
Photo by Sue Hardesty When I first put in the hearing aids, I felt a giant exhalation of tension. Though I knew of my relatively modest hearing loss, I was unaware what a strain it put not just on my marriage and public life, but on my mind and body.
Grandpa Lynch, a retired Railroad Engineer, had big clunky hearing aids. Grandma Lynch needed a pair, though her family said she could hear perfectly well when she wanted to. There was definitely hearing loss on my mother’s side, but her parents couldn’t have afforded hearing aids if they’d wanted them, which they didn’t any more than Grandma Lynch did.
Shame was attached to the very idea of needing such devices. Do people reject hearing aids out of pride? Vanity? Was it the stigma of disability? Maybe back then the new-fangled things weren’t very effective. Probably they were uncomfortable.
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Dave Hughes: Retirement is Like a Buffet. Will You Stuff Yourself or Starve?
By Dave Hughes, RetireFabulously.comThere’s a buffet restaurant a few miles from our home called Pacific Seafood Buffet. Most of the food is Asian, and the primary draw for us is the opportunity to eat all the sushi we care to eat for one price. Of course, there are a lot of other good dishes there too: tempura vegetables, shrimp, crab cakes, and many things you typically find at Asian buffets. And there’s green tea ice cream for dessert!
The lunch price is very reasonable, so we go every couple of months. It would be dietarily disastrous to go any more often than that. We all know that buffets are invitations to overeat, and our visits to Pacific Seafood Buffet are no exception. On the drive home, we usually bemoan the fact that we have eaten too much.
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‘Black Cat White Paws’ Now In Lahaska and Doylestown Bookstores
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Before and After Zucchini Bread and Muffins
