We hope you enjoyed the April 2022 issue of This Awful Awesome Life.

Articles from past issues are available on our website, thisawfulawesomelife.com.

Next month we are celebrating Mystery Month with information on the latest mysteries by your favorite authors.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to provide you with some insight into what inspires them to write mysteries.

We’re also celebrating Mother’s Day,  college graduations, and Memorial Day.

Lilly Kauffman and Orlando Bartro will be back with interesting articles. We’ll have a new quiz and reading recommendations for kids and adults centered around our mystery theme. Which book will I review? It’s a tough choice given the number of excellent mystery novels in my reading queue.

Linda Cahill will be firing up the grill to prepare some of your favorite cookout recipes and our May 2022 vegetable in “The Twelve Months of Vegetables will be beets.

Don’t miss the second installment of “Dare to Believe.” Which outstanding man and woman will we select? We’ll have a new streaming article and a few surprises for you as well as May 2022 in Pictures.

Until next month, stay safe; stay well. You are important, and you are loved.

All my best,

Fran

Answers to the April 2022, It’s Raining Quotes Quiz:

1.       “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” Bill Watterson

2.       “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” Benjamin Franklin

3.       “Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet.” Roger Miller

4.       “A rainy day at the beach is better than a sunny day at the office.” Unknown

5.       “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” Charlie Chaplin

6.       “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with liquid silver drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” Langston Hughes

7.       “Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.” Rumi

8.       “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.” Emily Wing Smith

9.       “One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.” John Steinbeck

10.   “Rain! Whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”  Henry Ward Beecher

11.   “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene

12.   “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” Billie Holiday

13.   “If the rain spoils our picnic but saves a farmer’s crop. Who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” Tom Barrett

14.   “Every storm runs out of rain.” Maya Angelou

15.   “In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?” Pablo Neruda

16.   “The sound of rain needs no translation.” Alan Watts

17.   “From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.” Tony Hillerman

18.   “The rain is falling all around; it falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here, and all the ships at sea.” Robert Louis Stevenson

19.   “You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. That’s part of it.” Denzel Washington

20.   “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

21.   “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton

22.   “A rainy day is a special gift to readers.” Amy Miles

23.   “The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfillment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.” Helen Garner

24.   “If people were rain, then I was a drizzle, and she was a hurricane.” Unknown

25.   “Let a smile be your umbrella and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.” George Carlin

26.   “If you want to see a rainbow. You have to learn to see the rain.” Paulo Coelho

27.   “No umbrella’s color matters under torrential rain.” Mehmet Murat Ildan

28.   “Don’t pray when it rains, if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” Satchel Paige

29.   “I am like the rain: I go where I’m needed.” Alejandro Jodorowsky

30.   “I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.” Rae Foley