Thank you for reading the August 2022 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to  thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.

Next month we will celebrating Banned Books Month. We do this every year because I believe censorship is dangerous to a free society. Freedom of speech must be preserved as long as it does not cause insurrection or physical harm. Sadly, most of the books being targeted in the last decade are being targeted for political, religious, or cultural reasons.

Lilly Kauffman, Orlando Bartro, Linda Cahill, and I will be back with interesting articles and recipes to celebrate the arrival of fall.. Our vegetable for September is green beans. When I was growing up my dad was an avid gardener, and I spent many evenings snapping surplus green beans for my mom to flash freeze for our winter table.

We’ll have our September quiz, reading recommendations, streaming article, and our new series, “Dare to Believe” and “What’s in a Word?”

For September I will be reviewing Entrenched by Linda Lee Blakemore. It’s a powerful book about a taboo subject in “polite society,” sexual abuse. We will also have a Q&A with the author.

Until next month,

Stay safe. Stay well. You are important, and you are loved.

All my best,

Fran

Answers to the August 2022 Six Degrees of Separation with a Vacation Twist:

1.    Jerry Seinfeld starred in Seinfeld with Julia Louis Dreyfuss who starred in The New Adventures of Old Christine with Wanda Sykes who starred in Snatched.

2.    Rita Wilson starred in Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger who starred in Eraser with Vanessa Williams who starred in Johnson Family Vacation.

3.    Robert Duvall starred in The Great Santini with Michael O’Keefe who starred in Caddy Shack with Chevy Chase who starred in National Lampoon’s Vacation

4.    Vigo Mortensen starred in Eastern Promises with Vincent Cassell who starred in Black Swan with Mila Kunis who appeared in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

5.    Diana Ross starred in Lady Sings the Blues with Billy Dee Williams who starred in Batman with Jack Palance who played Curly in City Slickers.

6.    Beverly D’Angelo was in American History X with Edward Norton who starred in The Illusionist with Rufus Sewell who was in The Holiday

7.    Heath Ledger starred in A Knight’s Tale with Paul Bettany who starred in The Secret Life of Bees with Queen Latifah who starred in Last Holiday.

8.    Busta Rhymes had a supporting role in Finding Forrester which starred Sean Connery who starred in Robin and Marian with Audrey Hepburn who starred in Roman Holiday.

9.    Selena Gomez stars in Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin who starred in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with John Candy who starred in Summer Rental.

10. Kevin Bacon starred in Mystic River with Laura Linney who starred in the miniseries John Adams  with Paul Giamatti who starred in Sideways.