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Book Review: Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body, by Gavin Francis
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm SezShapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body, by Gavin Francis
c.2018, Basic Books $27.00 / $35.50 Canada
283 pagesChange, they say, is good.
It’s the opportunity for growth. It’s a chance to take a breath, reassess, reconfigure. It makes the landscape look fresh; it also muddies the waters. And yet, you bounce back and, as you’ll see in “Shapeshifters” by Gavin Francis, so does your body.
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The Savvy Senior: Cheap Cell Phone Plans for Seldom Calling Seniors
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior
What are the cheapest cell phone plans available to seniors today? I’m 78-years-old and want it primarily for emergency purposes.
Infrequent Caller
Dear Infrequent,
While unlimited high-speed data, video streaming and mobile hot spot are now standard for most cell phone plans today, there are still a number of low-cost wireless plans designed with seniors in mind.
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One Thing or Another: Not So Fast (Age and the Morning Routine)
It’s always One Thing or Another … a lighthearted look at aging, life, and the absurdities of it all.By Mark McNease
I hope my morning routine hasn’t stretched to an hour when I’m seventy, and I certainly hope I can accomplish it unaided. I’m trying.
I used to be able to get up, shower, dress, and ready myself for another day faster than the opening theme song to the morning news. By the time the anchors announced the top stories, I was pouring my second cup of coffee and adjusting my tie, fully prepared to meet the demands of a stalled career.
How does anyone without superpowers accomplish this? Was there a phone booth in the bathroom, into which I hurried one minute and emerged from the next scrubbed and presentable? Or was it youth itself? A youth that extended into my fifties before vanishing into the mists of a morning routine grown longer by the year?
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New Book ‘Gay & Bisexual Men Living with Prostate Cancer’ Explores Issue from Diagnosis to Recovery
VIA PRESS RELEASE
(New York, NY) June 12, 2018 – On June 19, LGBTQ scholarly publisher Harrington Park Press will release their latest book, “Gay & Bisexual Men Living with Prostate Cancer (from Diagnosis to Recovery).”
Like previous titles from the imprint, such as “Transgender Sex Work and Society” and “LGBTQ Hospice and Palliative Care,” the book is not only the first of its kind, but also necessary and timely.
Medical science has conspicuously–and shamefully–been complicit in valuing straight white men above all others. Women, racial minorities, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning/queer (LGBTQ) communities are underrepresented in clinical trials, which limits our ability to identify their needs and to respond to them thoughtfully.
The LGBTQ community has been described as experiencing an “ignored epidemic” and characterized as a “growing and medically underserved population” in the area of cancer care.
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‘Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’ Now Available for Preorder
The countdown begins! Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery is available now for preorder on Kindle, at the preorder special price of $1.99. That jumps to $4.99 on its release July 8.
In addition to this, a special 4-chapter excerpt is free for all email subscribers and will be sent out shortly, for download via BookFunnel (ePub, MOBI or PDF).
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Gay Travelers Magazine: Sacred Tours of Mexico – Experience the Spiritual and Historical Traditions of Mexico
The following is reprinted with permission from Gay Travelers Magazine
By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
We have enjoyed every single visit to Mexico. We have watched giant whales swim by. We have stood in awe viewing Mayan archeological sites. We swam with sea turtles. We have enjoyed luxurious resorts. Mexico is filled with beauty, history and wonderful vacation opportunities.
Sacred Tours of Mexico allows travelers to experience the spiritual and historical traditions of Mexico.
We asked Anne Key, Co-Founder and Tour Leader of Sacred Tours of Mexico, to tell us more. This is how she responded by email.
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Grace Anne Stevens: Of Thee I Dream (Poetry)
Grace Anne Stevens Of Thee I Dream
My country used to be
The home of Liberty
Of this I singLand where our dreams come true
For me and each of you
These days I feel so blue,
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The Twist Podcast Great Edition: Great Healthcare for Nobody, Great Changes at Miss America, and America Makes Russia Great Again
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at the headlines, GOP glee at destroying healthcare for millions, changes at Miss America, Russia rising, and terror for the entire family at the border.
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 Savvy Senior: How to Make a Living Will
The Savvy Senior
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
What’s the best way to go about making a living will? I recently retired and would like to start getting my affairs in order, just in case.
Approaching 70
Dear Approaching,
Preparing a living will now is a smart decision that gives you say in how you want to be treated at the end of your life. Here’s what you should know, along with some resources to help you create one.
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LGBTSr Celebrates 400 Email Subscribers (and Counting)!
We’ve officially hit the 400 subscriber mark. After 7 years of sharing columns, reviews, podcasts, interviews, and content of all kinds, it’s a day to celebrate.
LGBTSr now has 400 subscribers to the website, 4,134 followers on the Facebook page, and 226 members of the new LGBTSr Group on Facebook, where conversation meets community as we embrace age and celebrate life.
Thanks to everyone! If you like what you find here, please spread the word and help us grow. It would be amazing to end the year at 500!
Mark McNease/Editor
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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.