Thanks for reading the August 2021 issue of This Awful Awesome Life! We hope you enjoyed it.

Next month the kids will hopefully all be back in their classrooms. If this is important to you, please make sure to get both doses of the vaccine and be ready to receive a booster if the CDC deems it necessary. Get your kids ages 12 and up immunized and be ready to immunize younger children as soon as the CDC gives the okay. Please present a positive attitude about vaccines, mask wearing and social distancing to your kids. We just don’t know enough about the DELTA variant to know if we’ll all need to return to wearing masks again even if we’re fully vaccinated. The lives of our children and our most vulnerable may depend on how we respond to new variants. I know we’re all tired of living in fear, but I’m more tired of watching my friends and neighbors lose loved ones to this virus.

September is Banned Books Month and we’ll be featuring the latest information from the American Library Association about censorship and banned books. Who are your favorite authors? Have any of their works ever been banned?

Lilly Kauffman will be back with a humorous back to school tale and Orlando Bartro will surprise us by putting a unique spin on his topic of choice.

Linda Cahill will have delicious recipes courtesy of Pampered Chef. Our September soup will be Tomato Basil paired with a grilled cheese. I’ll be making a traditional grilled cheese and a vegan option with tomato slices and vegan cheese.

We’ll have a new quiz, a book review and reading recommendations for kids and adults plus much more.

Until next month, Stay Safe. Stay well. You are important and you are loved!

All my best,

Fran

Answers to the August 2021 Quiz – Six Degrees of Separation by School Related Movie or TV Shows:

Robin Williams starred in Dead Poets Society with Kurtwood Smith who starred in That 70s Show with Mila Kunis.

Alexis Bledel starred in Gilmore Girls with Chad Michael Murray who starred in One Tree Hill with Lee Norris who was in Boy Meets World with Ben Savage.

Laurence Fishburne is in Akeelah and the Bee with Lee Thompson Young who was in Friday Night Lights with Billy Bob Thornton.

Rebel Wilson is in Pitch Perfect with Donald Faison who is in Clueless with Paul Rudd who is in Perks of Being a Wallflower with Emma Watson.

Reese Witherspoon is in Legally Blonde with Selma Blair who is in Can’t Hardly Wait with Breckin Meyer who is in Road Trip with Amy Smart.

Drew Barrymore stars in Never Been Kissed with Octavia Spencer who is in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton with Topher Grace who is in Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts.

Kevin Bacon stars in Animal House with Tim Matheson who is in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder with Paul Gleason who was in The Breakfast Club with Molly Ringwald.

Michelle Pfeiffer stars in Dangerous Minds with Courtney B. Vance who is married to Angela Bassett who plays a flight attendant in Kindergarten Cop which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Alan Ruck is in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with Matthew Broderick who plays a high school student/hacker in War Games with Dabney Coleman who provided the voice of Principal Prickly in the animated cartoon, Recess which also featured the vocal talents of Ashley Johnson as Gretchen Grundler.

Michael J. Fox is in Back to the Future with Lea Thompson who is in Switched at Birth with D.W. Moffett who is in the TV version of Friday Night Lights with Connie Britton.