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Savvy Senior: Golf Gadgets That Can Help Older Golfers
You can listen to my podcast interview with Savvy Senior’s Jim Miller HERE.
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
Do you know of any golfing equipment that can help older golfers? My dad, who’s 76, loves to play golf, but arthritis in his hands has made griping the club challenging, and his fragile lower back makes stooping over to tee-up or retrieve the ball a problem too. Is there anything out there that can help?
Golfing Buddy
Dear Buddy,
There are actually a wide variety of adaptive golf equipment that can help older golfers who struggle with injuries, arthritis or loss of mobility. Here are several golfing products that may help with different needs.
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One Thing or Another: Let’s Face It (Unmasked At Last)
By Mark McNease
It’s always One Thing or Another… a lighthearted look at aging, life, and the absurdities of it all.
I took the gestures we make with our faces for granted. I failed to understand how crucial a form of communication our faces are, and how strange it would become when we no longer exposed them to each other.
For fourteen months I did the right thing for myself and my community. I wore a mask despite finding it uncomfortable and inconvenient. It was required at my job, but I also wanted to be part of a solution when no one was sure what the solution was. This pandemic was a new experience for me, my country and the world. At least it was new insofar as it had been a hundred years since the last significant one.
Then the vaccines arrived, like the calvary showing up in a syringe. Most people I know managed to get appointments after sharing among ourselves how difficult it was, a form of pandemic gossip and communal anxiety. We sat in chairs, we rolled up our sleeves and offered our fleshy arms, and we walked away amazed at how anticlimactic it was. I went through this for months and all I got was this lousy vaccination card.
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Being Well with LGBTSr: Living With Sleep Apnea
Being Well is a regular feature at LGBTSR highlighting health and wellness.
Editor’s note: This first appeared here at LGBTSr in March, 2020. After a year of pandemic comfort eating and attendant weight gain, I wanted to visit the topic again as I commit to losing the extra pounds and doing whatever I need to to free myself from the CPAP machine that has been my night time companion for three and a half years – if I’m able. Many people benefit from them and lives can be saved. I simply hope someday to no longer need one. – Mark
A few years ago I began regularly waking up with headaches. I’m also a loud snorer, as my husband reminded me several times a night with nudges to turn on my side or just wake up long enough to stop. Headaches and snoring … something was probably going on. I made an appointment with a sleep specialist and did a home test for sleep apnea. It recorded 25+ “events” per hour. An event is when the person stops breathing due to sleep apnea. It can lead to multiple health issues, with headaches and snoring being two of the most obvious.
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The Twist Podcast #163: Vacation Nation, Shreveport Revisited, and Your Favorite Toxic Personality Types
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we thrill to the thought of a maskless summer, revisit Shreveport with Rick and his memories, and rundown America’s top toxic personality types.
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One Thing or Another Podcast: Book Reviewer Terri Schlichenmeyer Offers Pride and Summer Reading Picks
Join me for a conversation with returning guest Terri Schlichenmeyer, aka The Bookworm Sez. I chat with Terri about her reading suggestions for Pride month, and for the upcoming summer beach season. It looks like we’ll have one this year, and Terri offers up some spot-on recommendations, as well as a fun personal catch up.
You can read Terri’s book reviews at LGBTSr.com HERE, and listen in on our previous podcast conversations HERE and HERE.
Terri Schlichenmeyer Terri Schlishenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 13,000 books.
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Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: Standing On My Own Two Feet
Photo by Elaine Lynch By Lee Lynch
The Amazon Trail: Standing On My Own Two FeetI’ve always wanted to outgrow the travails of youth. Now I have, and it turns out that the body wears out as the mind wises up. Where is the balance in that?
Since childhood, I have been looking forward to growing old enough to know pretty much which end is up in life, to reaching Social Security age in order to write full-time, and to tackle mature subjects in my work. I find it strange that just when I’ve reached something like that balance, I’ve lost my relatively reliable physical balance.
I’ve never been with a lover this long, and now I’ve pledged a permanence, called marriage, that I’ve learned to respect. Since the age of eighteen, I’ve never lived in one home this long. My recent stability has enabled me, I believe, to write more complex stories that feature more thoroughly developed characters and, because of my years of travel along the roads of lesbian culture, especially with my sweetheart, I can offer readers more varied and detailed settings.
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Tasty Pride Treats from MarthaStewart.com
MarthaStewart.com It’s June, the month for rainbows, Pride, and enjoying life – especially now that we’re getting back to some kind of normal. Follow the links for 15 delicious desserts from MarthaStewart.com. Make them, share them, feel the spirit.
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Every June, millions of people around the world celebrate Pride Month, which uplifts the LGTBQ+ community and honors the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. From parades to workshops to concerts, this month offers us countless chances to spread the love. Of course, every celebration deserves delicious food: In honor of Pride Month, we’re sharing 15 multi-colored dessert recipes that you’re sure to love.
If there’s one dessert that’s practically made for Pride, it’s our 12-layer Rainbow Cake. It starts with a large amount of vanilla cake batter-five large egg whites keep the cake super moist and airy. Next, the batter is divided into sections and each dyed with every color of the rainbow. The layers are baked then stacked with a thick layer of our Lemony Swiss Meringue Buttercream between each. When this beauty is sliced, everyone’s jaws will drop as they see that delectable rainbow on the inside.
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Q Audiobooks: Something to Talk About, by Meryl Wilsner, Narrated by Jorjeana Marie and Xe Sands
My newest Q Audiobooks pick is a FF romance from 2020 (more, please!), written by Meryl Wilsner and narrated by Jorneana Marie and Xe Sands. Something to Talk About tells the developing love story between a photographer and her assistant as they navigate the treacherous waters – or is it treacherous red carpets? – of Hollywood. Fasten your headphones!
About ‘Something to Talk About’
By: Meryl Wilsner
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Xe Sands
Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins|
Unabridged Audiobook
4.4 out of 5 stars(270 ratings)Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn’t come at a worse time – threatening Emma’s promotion and Jo’s new movie.
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Savvy Senior: Helping Seniors Find Discounted High-Speed Internet Services
You can listen to my podcast interview with Savvy Senior’s Jim Miller HERE.
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
Do you know where I can find cheaper high-speed internet services for my home? I’m 70-years old and live strictly on my Social Security and would like to find something faster and less expensive than I currently have.
Surfing Susan
Dear Susan,
There are actually two new resources available today that can help you save money on your home internet services, but what’s available to you will depend on your income level and where you live. Here’s where to begin.
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The Twist Podcast #162: Peanut Butter Paradox, Manchin Thrills McConnell, and Happy Days Are Here Again
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we consider the proper storage of peanut butter, Joe Manchin’s extraordinary impersonation of Mitch McConnell, and the return of abnormal life in the best ways. Plus we hate cicadas.
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The Twist Podcast #161: Emma Thompson Slays, America Unmasks, Groceries Go Brandless, and the Great GOP Betrayal
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we marvel at Emma Thompson in Disney’s Cruella, take a deep mask-less breath, consider disappearing brands in grocery stores, and weep at the GOP’s betrayal of America.
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Savvy Senior: How to Downsize Your Home for a Move
Listen to my interview with Savvy Senior’s Jim Miller on the One Thing or Another Podcast.
By Jim Miller
Dear Savvy Senior,
What tips can you offer for downsizing? My husband and I would like to relocate from our house into a retirement community condo near our daughter but need to get rid of a lot of personal possessions before we can move.
Overwhelmed Willa
Dear Willa,
The process of weeding through a house full of stuff and parting with old possessions is difficult and overwhelming for most people. A good place to start is to see if your kids, grandkids or other family members would like any of your unused possessions. Whatever they don’t want, here are a few tips and services that may help you downsize.