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The Savvy Senior: How to Write a Will
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
Though it may seem hard to believe, at age 65, I never have gotten around to making a will, but I’d like to now. My question is: Do I need to hire a lawyer to write my will, or can I do it myself? I want to get my affairs in order, but I hate paying an attorney fee if I don’t have to.
Getting Organized
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The Twist Podcast #62: A Day at the Breach, Gals Who Love Gays, and the Emperor’s New Tweets
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we offer up news and opinion with a Twist. This week: Facebook revealed, bring back the f#g h#gs, and imagining a world without tweets.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
Copyright 2018 MadeMark Publishing
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Book Review: My Patients and Other Animals, by Suzy Fincham-Gray
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm SezMy Patients and Other Animal, by Suzy Fincham-Gray
c.2018, Spiegel & Grau
$27.00 / $36.00 Canada 288 pages
Lions and tigers and bears, Oh, my!
You probably don’t have any of those in your house right now – at least not in their full-size versions – but the kitty and puppy lying nearby might sometimes seem as ferocious as their larger cousins. Oh, my, as you’ll see in the new book “My Patients and Other Animals” by Suzy Fincham-Gray, we’re wild for our pets!
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A Wealth of Health: Let’s Talk About Age-Related Hearing Loss
By Mark McNease
My mother was deaf in one ear due to a punctured eardrum in her youth. She had the habit of nodding when she didn’t hear something rather than admit she couldn’t hear what was said.
Many people experience hearing loss as we age. I won’t be surprised if it’s as much part of my aging process as deteriorating vision that requires glasses to read anything smaller than a billboard. (I wear my glasses on a cord around my neck, knowing I’d lose them in a day if they weren’t fastened to me—not very stylish, but extremely practical.)
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Q Audiobooks: Marshall Thornton’s Femme, Narrated by Joel Leslie
Marshall Thornton’s follow up to his smash romance Femme,Masc is available now for pre-order, releasing April 28.
Femmeby Marshall Thornton
Narrated by Joel LeslieMarshall Thornton’s Femme translates perfectly to audiobook. A starred Publishers Weekly recommendation, Femme tells the story of Lionel and Dog, a literary pair as unlikely as they are illuminating.
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EVENT: Meet the Author, with Maurice W. Dorsey, May 17 (Baltimore)
Maurice W. Dorsey has done it again. His previous book, Businessman First, was a fascinating biography of African American businessman Henry G. Parks, Jr., and a finalist for a QBR Wheatley Book Award. His new novel, From Whence We Come, is every bit as powerful. You can read a ‘6 Questions’ with the author here at LGBTSr, and he’ll be among our monthly featured authors later this summer.From the Pratt Library event description:
In his new novel, From Whence We Come, Maurice Dorsey tells the story of Seymour Rose, an African American man who is gay. He was born to a father who is Catholic and accepts his son unconditionally. His mother, who is born Methodist, is homophobic and tells her son throughout his life that she never wanted to have him. Seymour reflects on three generations of his family history and often tells family stories to make sense of his years of emotional insecurity and feelings of being unloved and unwanted.Date: Thursday, May 17
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Waverly Branch
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Bob Dylan Celebrates Gay Love with Cover of ‘[He’s] Funny That Way’
Screenshot of the New York Times “If you look at the history of pop music, love songs have predominantly come from one heterosexual perspective. If we view music as something that brings people together, shouldn’t these popular songs be open to everyone?” – Tom Murphy, a co-producer of “Universal Love.”
Shortly after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Justice Antonin Scalia attended a party where he signaled his displeasure by singing Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’.”
“He sang with great verve,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told The Washington Post at the time.
Now Mr. Dylan himself is crooning about same-sex love. As part of a new EP called “Universal Love,” he rerecorded the 1929 song “She’s Funny That Way,” from the Great American Songbook catalog, but switched the pronoun to “He’s Funny That Way.”
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Gentlemen’s Agreement
Gregory Peck heads an all star cast in Darryl F Zanuck’s Oscar winning Best Picture of 1947; Elia Kazan’s “Gentlemen’s Agreement”. Based on the bestselling novel by Laura Z Hobson, it deals with the problem of antisemitism just after the World War II. Also in the cast are Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Anne Revere, June Havoc and Celeste Holm in the role of the sympathetic reporter that won her an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Brilliantly written by Moss Hart, it’s subtly acted, directed and as relevant today as the day it premiered.
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April Featured Author: Joe Cosentino
Author Joe Cosentino Joe Cosentino is as prolific a writer as you’ll likely ever meet. His series include the Nicky and Noah Mysteries, the Jana Lane Mysteries, the Cozzi Cove Series, holiday stories, romances, and a host of audiobooks.
Joe recently released second editions of the first three Nicky and Noah mystery novels. Audiobooks for them(narrated by Michael Gilboe, Chip Hurley, and Brad Enright) are still for sale on Audible, Amazon and iTunes. He also has audiobooks available for The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland (Dreamspinner Press, Joel Leslie); A Home for the Holidays, Bobby and Paolo’s Holiday Stories Book 1(Dreamspinner Press, Joel Leslie), Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back, the first Cozzi Cove novel (NineStar Press, Chase Johnson), and Porcelain Doll, the second Jana Lane mystery (The Wild Rose Press, Derick Snow).
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LGBTSr Daily Now Provides News Roundup Every Morning
I’m a news junky. That’s required a serious adjustment at a time when so much content is empty filler. But I try to keep up on the world I’m living in, and now there’s a simple way for readers of this website to do the same: the LGBTSr Daily, on Paper.li. You can read the headlines right here in the right hand column, or surf to the paper itself, with the option to subscribe and get a news roundup every day.
We’re living in chaotic, always-changing times, with a news cycle that spins faster and faster. Weed out the nonsense, turn down the noise, and enjoy a quick, easy-to-read overview with your morning coffee and equality scone.
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Jolly Good Soda Campaign Launches
Watch closely at the ending credits: that’s me listed on the creative team as the writer. Sweet! Literally.
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Q Audiobooks: Inside Dumont, Narrated by Author Michael Craft
Q Audiobooks is a regular feature highlighting audiobooks of interest to the LGBTQ listener.Author, craftsman and master storyteller Michael Craft’s novel, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories, was recently released on audiobook, available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
Narrated by the author himself, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories uses interconnected viewpoints to tell a touching, funny, intricate narrative about lead character Marson Miles’s later-life journey toward discovery—of himself, his desires, and his place in a town called Dumont.