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  • Podcasts,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #170: Biden Drops the Hammer, Bush Drops the Mic, COVID Calamity, and Remembering 9/11

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we consider President Biden’s performance, appreciate the candor of George W. Bush, consider the calamity called COVID, and share some thoughts on 9/11. Plus the weekly headlines and lots of inside jokes.

    Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.

    Copyright 2021 MadeMark Publishing

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  • Kapok,  LGBTSR

    Kapok Aging and Caregiver Resources: Holistic Pain Management for Seniors

    This article is excerpted with permission from Kapok Aging and Caregiver Resources. You can listen to my conversation with Angelica here. – Mark/Editor

    By Angelica Herrera Venson,DrPH, MPH

    Angelica Herrera Venson

    Pain is a serious problem for many seniors and caregivers. When Western medicine fails us, or is out of reach financially, the pain can drive many of us to explore alternative forms of therapy. Indeed, holistic pain management for seniors can be a powerful tool, where you are combining multiple approaches for reducing and managing your pain.

    However, before you do that, make sure you understand the strength of the science behind these options and the limitations of what they can and cannot treat. You should also be aware of the risks, along with when such techniques might not be suitable.

  • This Day in LGBTQ History

    Ronni Sanlo’s This Day in LGBTQ History (September 3 – 9)

    Ronni Sanlo’s This Day in LGBTQ History makes the past ever-present with daily rundowns of historic events and people. 

    Ronni Sanlo
    THIS DAY in LGBTQ HISTORY
    SEPTEMBER 9
    1898
    John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 – 15 September 1983) was an English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker. He wrote over 60 books and is best remembered for his books about his homes and gardens, the first of which was Down the Garden Path (1932). He was gay and is thought to have had a brief affair with a famous war poet, Siegfried Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967). Nichols’s long-time companion was actor and director Cyril Butcher (31 July 1909 – 23 February 1987).
    1992
    The Lesbian Avengers stage their first public action in the New York City borough of Queens when right-wingers attempt to suppress a multicultural “Children of the Rainbow” curriculum for elementary school children. The Lesbian Avengers was founded in New York City by Ana Maria Simo, Sarah Schulman, Maxine Wolfe, Anne-christine D’Adesky, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire as “a direct action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility.” Dozens of other chapters quickly emerged world-wide, a few expanding their mission to include questions of gender, race, and class. On their first action, the Lesbian Avengers targeted right-wing attempts to suppress.
    This Day in LGBTQ History, Vol. 1 January-March – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SB3C75V
    This Day in LGBTQ History, Vol. 2 – April-June.
    This Day in LGBTQ History, Vol. 3 – July-September
  • Savvy Senior

    Savvy Senior: Little Known Social Security Program Helps Seniors Manage Their Money

    Listen to my interview with Savvy Senior’s Jim Miller here.

    By Jim Miller

    Dear Savvy Senior,

    Does Social Security offer any special help to beneficiaries who struggle managing their benefits? My aunt, who has no children, has dementia and struggles keeping up with her bills and other financial duties.

    Inquiring Niece

    Dear Inquiring,

    Yes, Social Security actually has a little-known program known as the “representative payee program” that helps beneficiaries who need help managing their Social Security benefit payments. Here’s what you should know.

  • The Weekly Readlines

    The Weekly Readlines September 10

    The Weekly Readlines is a feature at LGBTSr.com, offering news and views you can use every Friday morning. Subscribe here for virtual delivery.

      BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES

    President Biden goes on offense against vaccine refusers determined to ruin it for everyone else. Vaccination will now be mandatory for Federal workers, contractors, and employers with over 100 employees. Anti-vaxxers and no-maskers howl in response, demanding ‘my body, my choice,’ unless you’re a woman who needs an abortion in a GOP-led state.

    Look for a continued surge in the sale of horse paste as the perfect stocking stuffer for Christmas. Despite health experts warning against using the horse de-wormer to treat Covid, it could be this year’s Tickle Me Elmo for the conspiracy theorist on your list.

    And in happy news, Pete and Chasten Buttigieg announced the birth of their two children. Here’s hoping they have an inhabitable world to grow up in.

  • An App for That,  LGBTSR

    An App for That: MyFitnessPal

    An App for That is a regular feature at LGBTSr highlighting useful apps and technology tips for our readers. Have an app to recommend? Email me at: Editor @ LGBTSr.com

    On my recent podcast interview with Angelica Herrera Venson of Kapok Caregiving Resources, she mentioned MyFitnessPal when we talked about apps and technology for older adults. I know this app well, having had it on my phone for the past couple years. It offers a lot of data, tracking and helpful information, and can be a handy tool in our health routine, especially if we want to keep track of what we eat and lose a few pounds in the process. I use the free version, of course, and only recommend apps that offer one.

  • One Thing or Another Podcast,  Podcasts

    One Thing or Another Podcast: Angelica Herrera Venson of Kapok Multicultural Caregiving Joins the Show

    Join me for a conversation with Angelica Herrera Venson, DrPH, MPH, Founder of Kapok Multicultural Caregiving. Kapok offers a wide variety of articles and resources for caregivers, older adults and their families across cultures. They offer experiences, best practices, tips, and affordable tools from sources you can trust. Angelica brings her high energy and dedication to the conversation, as well as to her mission. Fasten your headphones!

  • One Thing or Another Podcast,  Podcasts

    One Thing or Another Podcast: Audiobook Narrator Sean Rhead on the Making of ‘Reservation for Murder’

    Join me for a conversation with audiobook narrator Sean Rhead. We’ve just finished our second book together, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery, and Sean lets us in on his process for taking a book from print to microphone. Sean has been in the narration business for the past two years, and currently has over 20 titles available for download on Audible. His favorite genres to narrate are fantasy and mystery, but there is no genre he wouldn’t like to take on. When Sean is not narrating, he spends his time teaching music to the younger generation, singing musical theatre songs, and duetting sea shanties on TikTok. He is also a proud ally of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.

  • Events

    EVENTS: New Hope Celebrates Book Club, ‘Gay Bar’ by Jeremy Aherton Lin

    When: Wednesday, Sep 22, 6:30 PM
    Where: 162 Carousel Lane,
    Lahaska, PA 18931
    Join us on Wednesday, September 22nd at 6:30 PM at the Lahaska Book Shop for the New Hope Celebrates Book Club! We will be discussing Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin.

    Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian-American essayist based in the UK. Jeremy studied playwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), then worked as an editor in San Francisco before transplanting to London, where he took a job in retail and hung out at bars. After gaining some attention for his candid observations in blogs and zines, he wound up on the Writing MA at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He has since contributed to The Yale Review, Granta, The White Review, ArtReview, Literary Hub, The Face, W, Tinted Window, and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut book Gay Bar (2021) was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Guardian Book of the Week. Jeremy’s mixtapes can be heard on NTS Radio, Spotify, and Mixcloud.

    Learn more at https://bit.ly/3yQQpAO

    Have an event you’d like announced? Email the details to: events @ lgbtsr.com

  • Savvy Senior

    Savvy Senior: How to Handle Your Medicare Coverage if You Move

    By Jim Miller

    Dear Savvy Senior,

    My husband and I are moving to a different area of the country to be near our daughter. Will this affect our Medicare benefits? Will we need to adjust our coverage or re-enroll in a new plan?

    Moving Away                                                                                  

    Dear Moving,

    Moving can indeed affect your Medicare benefits depending on the type of coverage you have and where you move to.

  • LGBTSR,  The Weekly Readlines

    The Weekly Readlines September 3

    The Weekly Readlines is a feature at LGBTSr.com, offering news and views you can use every Friday morning. Subscribe here for virtual delivery.

      BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES

    And so it ends—the war in Afghanistan is over. Biden takes the hit, and he also takes responsibility, something we haven’t seen for, oh, four years or so.

    Anti-vaxxers continue to ramp up their violent rhetoric, in futile rage against the nation’s attempt to stop a virus that doesn’t care about anyone’s civil rights. It just kills, and it has been on a spree. Welcome to Florida!

    Texas made abortion all but illegal, with an assist from Supreme Court conservatives who have stopped pretending to be anything but enforcers for an extremist Republican agenda. Freedom flickers out one majority opinion at a time.

  • Dreamshaping

    On Dreamshaping: Today I (Insert Behavior Here)

    Mark McNease

     

    One of the tools I’ve used in shaping my own dreams is the ‘TODAY I’ list. It’s very simple: a regular, running list of things I’ve either stopped doing or begun to do. While putting things in the positive (‘Today I started ….’) is important, it’s also fine to say I stopped doing things that have been corrosive to my heath, mind, spirit, and dream.

    It helps me stay observant of myself. I’ll notice myself engaging in some behavior, such as talking badly about someone at work, or gossiping, or being gratuitously negative, and I’ll add stopping it to my list. There’s a beginning to it the first time I write something down, but there is not set end: I may add to the list for the rest of my life, or, preferably, until I’m shaped my dream to the best of my liking and can confidently say ‘TODAY I stopped adding to my TODAY I list!’