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The Twist Podcast #200: The Twist Celebrates 200 Episodes! Plus Our End Times After Party
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we celebrate 200 episodes of Twisting the right away, casual coherence, meticulous madness, news, picks, opinion and fun! Plus more gay stuff than you could ever regift. Happy anniversary to the show!
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‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’ Author Copies Arrive!
I must say I really like the way this cover turned out. It’s one of my best.
Now available: eBook and paperback editions of Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery
Download a free 6-chapter sample HERE!
Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.
Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love. Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?
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Kapok Aging and Caregiver Resources: How to Increase Energy Levels in Men as they Age
By Angelica Herrera Venson, DrPH, MPH
The following excerpt is reprinted with permission from Kapok Aging and Caregiver Resources.
It’s no secret that energy often decreases as people age. Getting up in the morning gets more difficult and you get tired faster at the end of the day. While some energy loss is due to age, there are also ways to increase energy levels in men as they age.
In fact, seniors can stay much more fit and active than many people assume. Age doesn’t need to stop you from being mobile and enjoying life. The following areas are all ways to increase energy levels and get back to your life.
Check Vitamin D Levels
Vitamin D is synthesized in the presence of sunlight. Simply getting sun regularly is often enough. But, your ability to make vitamin D decreases with age. You may not be able to get your levels high enough from sunlight alone.
This makes vitamin D one of the few supplements that most seniors would benefit from. In fact, vitamin D supplements are often prescribed.
There are many symptoms of vitamin D deficiency, one of which is lower energy levels.
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The Twist Podcast #196: Covid Diaries, Gays with Guns, Savoring Soap Operas, and More!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we check in post-Covid, shout out to the armed and fabulous, savor the best of soaps, and scan the week in headlines.
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It’s a 4th of July Goodreads Giveaway! Win a Copy of ‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’
Nothing says fireworks like a July 4th Goodreads giveaway! Enter to win 1 of 100 Kindle copies of Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery. The giveaway runs from July 4th through the 31st. For U.S. subscribers only (sorry, it’s a Kindle rule).
Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.
Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love. Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?
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‘One Thing or Another’ Humor Collection Hits #1!
Well that was fast! And what a great way to start a holiday weekend. One Thing or Another: Life, Aging, and the Absurdities of It All All hits #1 in humor short reads. I’ll take it!
One Thing or Another is a collection of humor columns that take a look at life, aging, and the absurdities of it all. From our culture’s refusal to use the word ‘old,’ to the sometimes comical consequences of aging in body and mind, if not always in spirit. Collected from the author’s personal columns, these short essays will make you chuckle, recognize yourself, and sometimes grimace at the not-always-funny price we pay for simply staying alive.
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At last! ‘One thing or Another: Life, Aging, and the Absurdities of It All’ Arrives As a Collection
At last … my One Thing or Another columns in a short, entertaining collection. You can download the eBook for free at BookFunnel, or get it on Amazon for less than a gallon of gas!
BookFunnel: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/p46rvvlaeo
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/34zmbdtn
One Thing or Another is a collection of humor columns that take a look at life, aging, and the absurdities of it all. From our culture’s refusal to use the word ‘old,’ to the sometimes comical consequences of aging in body and mind, if not always in spirit. Collected from the author’s personal columns, these short essays will make you chuckle, recognize yourself, and sometimes grimace at the not-always-funny price we pay for simply staying alive.
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Book Review: LBGTQ Books for Kids
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm SezLBGTQ Books for Kids
c.2022, various publishers
$14.99 – $17.99 various page counts
Like every kid in the world, the one you love has a zillion questions.
“Why” begins with ants and runs through zebras. “When” goes from astronauts to zoos. “Who” from Aunties to, well, you. So why not keep a few books around for the kiddoes, books that entertain and gently inform…
Life is better when you have a friend, and in “Strong” by Rob Kearney & Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani (Little, Brown, $17.99) a guy named Rob has always been one of the strongest guys around. When he decides he wants to compete, he finds someone to work out with him and they fall in love – but when Rob goes to the competition, everybody whispers about him. Why does he look so strange? Four-to-six-year-olds will be glad to see that when the right kind of cheerleader arrives, looks don’t matter at all.
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Book Review: In the Houses of Their Dead, by Terry Alford
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez
In the Houses of Their Dead” by Terry Alford
c.2022, Liveright
$27.95 320 pagesYou’re talking to yourself again.
That’s okay: it helps sort your thoughts, calm your brain, and settle your mind. But you’re not just talking to yourself: it may sound funny but it’s comforting to have one-sided conversations with people who would’ve shared their valuable wisdom, if they were still alive. You talk to those who gone sometimes, and in “In the Houses of Their Dead” by Terry Alford, you’ll see how that’s a habit that’s been around awhile.
Even for the early 1800s, Edwin Booth grew up in an unconventional household.
His father was an alcoholic actor who was prone to eccentricity, and he forced young Edwin to become his traveling companion and handler when the boy was just twelve years old. Edwin’s mother had lost a number of her children to nineteenth-century diseases. His younger siblings – especially Asia and John Wilkes – were as melodramatic as their father. As you might expect, the family was drawn toward the new mania for spiritualism.
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Back to Real Life … An Update
Our 10-night cruise was wonderful. I highly recommend Newport, Rhode Island. Then we sailed to Bermuda – been there, done that – and finally to Charleston on the way home. And now it’s back to the grind of retirement, or semi-retirement, or “I just need to make some money and get out of the house” retirement.
My husband Frank and I are as active as ever. He has been job-free for a number of years now and stays amazingly busy all the time. Me? Not so much. I write murder mysteries, publish websites, and do podcasts in the mornings, and then I often find myself with empty afternoons. SO … I will be returning to my old job, but only part-time. Three days a week, six hours a day. It will help pay for my COBRA insurance for the next year-and-a-half until I’m on Medicare. And it’s great insurance! It wasn’t as expensive as I’d worried it would be, and it’s very good coverage.
I enjoy the people I worked with in the Giant deli, and they’re excited to have me coming back. That was always the plan.
I’ll be back with the weekly LGBTSr.com emails starting next Saturday: The Weekly Readlines, Savvy Senior, columns, reviews, DIY suggestions, and more new things as the year progresses.
I have also finally (finally!) finished the second book in the Maggie Dahl Mystery series. The first was Black Cat White Paws, and now, coming soon … Open Secrets. A local writer who is mentioned in the first book takes center stage in book #2, as someone decides they don’t want her finishing the follow up to her successful collection of essays. Maggie finds herself involved and unable to stop searching for another killer in Lambertville, New Jersey, that never seemed to have much in the way of murder until she moved to town. Arriving this summer!
All subscribers will receive a complimentary 6 chapter excerpt!
See you soon.
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Ronni Sanlo’s This Day in Lesbian Herstory (April 30 – May 6)
Ronni Sanlo’s This Day in Lesbian Herstory makes the past ever-present with daily rundowns of historic events and people.
Ronni Sanlo
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Cover Reveal: Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery
I hope to be finished soon with the loooooong awaited sequel to Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery.
In the upcoming Open Secrets, local author Shanna Delaney, who first appeared briefly in Black Cat White Paws, becomes the center of a murder mystery. Shanna has written a follow up to her successful first collection of essays about life in a Delaware River town, and this time she’s rumored to be naming names. Not everyone whose secrets she could reveal wants them made public, and someone may be willing to kill to stop her.
Meanwhile, a year after her husband’s sudden death, Maggie finds herself on a date with a man who just may be the one to lead her back to a life away from the grief she’s known. Can she love again? And more importantly, will she?
Find out in Open Secrets, releasing fall, 2022.