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Hi.

Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - June 2022

We hope you enjoyed reading the May 2022 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Every issue we have published is available to read at thisawfulawesomelife.com. If there’s something we didn’t cover this month, we probably covered it in previous issues.

For our June issue, we are heading outdoors. It’s time to unplug (after you’ve read us of course) and enjoy the end of spring and the arrival of summer! The kiddoes will be out of school and the great outdoors is calling.

A trend I’ve noticed in recent years is that more people are using their front yards again. For so many years, every activity happened in the backyard and the front yard was relegated to window dressing. It’s great to see that our yards can still be pretty, but also functional. How do you balance the desire for privacy with the need for space and community? Front porch versus back deck – how can you get the most out of both locations?

I had an interesting conversation with my son about how kids play today versus how they played when he was a child, or I was a child. We’ll explore that in our June issue to help parents and grandparents make the most of play time.

Look for articles from Lilly Kauffman and Orlando Bartro. Linda Cahill will have recipes for summer, and our vegetable of the month for June will be kale. We’ll have more reading recommendations, a book review, and our quiz, plus June in Pictures.

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

All my best,

Fran

Answers to the May 2022 Quiz, Who Put Them in Charge?

1.       Miss Marple/Hercules Poirot                                   Agatha Christie

2.       Kinsey Milhone                                                           Sue Grafton

3.       Trevor Galloway/Jackson Channing                       J.J. Hensley

4.       Sherlock Holmes                                                        Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5.       Stephanie Plum                                                          Janet Evanovich

6.       Zoe Chambers/Dr. Jessie Cameron                         Annette Dashofy

7.       Adam Dalgliesh                                                           P.D. James                                     

8.       Alex Cross                                                                    James Patterson

9.       Walt Longmire                                                            Craig Johnson

10.   Calvin Watters/Charlene Taylor                              Luke Murphy

11.   Inspector Rebus                                                                        Ian Rankin

12.   Blackbird Sisters (Nora, Libby, and Emma)            Nancy Martin

13.   Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez                                   Ann CLeeves

14.   Joe and Frank Hardy                                                  Franklin W. Dixon

15.   Inspector Wexford                                                     Ruth Rendell

16.   Myron Bolitar                                                             Harlan Coben

17.   Jack Reacher                                                               Lee Child

18.   Harry Bosch                                                                 Michael Connelly

19.   Chief Inspector Armand Gamache                          Louis Penny

20.   Jim Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum                                Lilian Jackson Braun

21.   Encyclopedia Brown                                                  Donald J. Sobol

22.   Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden                  Gertrude Chandler Warner

23.   Mrs. Murphy, Tee Tucker, Pewter,                         Rita Mae Brown

Pirate, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen                  

24.   Megan Sawyer                                                            Wendy Tyson

25.   Mike Hammer                                                            Mickey Spillane

26.   Perry Mason, Della Street, Paul Drake                   Erle Stanley Gardner

27.   Jane Rizzoli, Dr. Maura Isles                                     Tess Gerritsen

28.   Spenser, Hawk/ Jesse Stone/ Sunny Randall/       Robert B. Parker

Virgil Cole, Everett Hitch

29.   Lord Peter Wimsey                                                    Dorothy L. Sayers

30.   Will Trent                                                                     Karin Slaughter

31.   Dr. Kay Scarpetta                                                        Patricia Cornwell

32.   Arkady Renko                                                              Martin Cruz Smith

33.   V.I. Warshawski                                                          Sara Paretsky

34.   Manon Bradshaw                                                      Susie Steiner

35.   Clare Ferguson, Russ VanAlstyne                            Julia Spencer-Fleming

36.   Goldy Schulz                                                                Diane Mott Davidson

37.   Agatha Raisin/Hamish Macbeth                              M.C. Beaton

38.   Father Brown                                                              G. K. Chesterton

39.   Philip Marlowe                                                           Raymond Chandler

40.   Dr. Tony Hill                                                                Val McDermid

41.   Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee                                            Tony Hillerman

42.   Sam Spade/Nick and Nora Charles                         Dashiell Hammett

Author Page: Where to Find Your Next Great Read

April 2022 in This Awful Awesome Life