We hope you enjoyed the February 2024 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Many thanks to Orlando Bartro for his contributions to the magazine.

For our March issue, we are featuring women in honor of Women’s History Month.

We are proud to feature Alaska Wilderness Mystery Author Robin Barefield and her article about violence against Alaska Native women, and why many of these crimes don’t receive the attention and man hours they deserve.

We are featuring contemporary romance novelist Lexi J. Kingston in this month’s Q& A. Lexi also writes vampire romances. I reviewed Come Nightfall, the first novel in the Nightfall series of vampire romances.

This year, I’m writing a short story for each issue related to the theme in some way. This month I wrote “Grammy June” about the life of a woman ahead of her times. It’s a work of fiction, but there are thousands of Grammy Junes out there to be discovered and cherished in every family.

For our new column, “Happy Birthday,” our author this month is the poet and essayist Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Barrett-Browning was a feminist and abolitionist even though her opinions were contrary to her father’s views. She further defied her father and married the love of her life, fellow poet Robert Browning. I learned so much about this talented woman and you will, too.

Our words for March are from Ireland and Irish creatives.

We’re streaming movies, mini-series, and series featuring strong women. They are heroic without being superheroes, and that could describe many women we all know and love.

This month in “The Twelve Months of Salsa,” I made Salsa Verde. It’s the perfect shade of green for the beginning of spring and the ideal snack to enjoy while you read this issue. I like this recipe because it’s delicious, simple to make, and you can change it up by adding spices of your choice.

Orlando Bartro is searching. For what? Read his article and find out.

We have some great choices in our reading recommendations for kids and adults. Also, check out March in Pictures, and our preview of our April Fantasy issue. Take our March Cover Me Quiz about famous covers of your favorite tunes.

We have updated our Author Page to include the works of Lexi J. Kingston and J.V. Hillard. And, we added three new novels by Annetter Dashofy. We hope to add the works of Maria Simbra soon.

I”m celebrating the women in my book by giving you a thumbnail sketch of some of main characters and the scene stealers. They may be minor characters, but they add so much to the plot. Everything in Between will be released in audiobook soon. I selected a narrator and according to my publisher, it should be completed soon. I’m sorry the audiobook wasn’t ready for the holidays, but hold onto those Amazon gift cards, it’s coming!

The internationally best-selling author, Luke Murphy, has a new book out. The Cradle Will Fall hit bookstores on September 30. Charlene Taylor and Calvin Watters are teaming up for their most challenging case ripped from today’s headlines.

Elizabeth Meitzler, who was featured in our December 2022 issue, has a new book out, The Power Move. It’s a hockey-romance novel. After reading and reviewing her debut novel, I predict this book will be just as entertaining. The Power Move is available on Amazon for paperback or kindle unlimited. Congratulations Elizabeth!

I hope you are carefully vetting the short list of people who are still running for office in the 2024 elections. Senatorial and presidential hopefuls are campaigning for the 2024 elections, but you still have time to start the vetting process. Please keep showing up and voting. We will never tell you who to vote for, but we will keep telling you to vote and do your homework!

Vet all candidates and insist that all political parties do the same. Which incumbent legislators have actually authored and submitted legislation to benefit Americans? Who’s all talk and soundbites? Who refuses to bring legislation to the floor of the House of Representatives or Senate, so our Representatives/Senators can vote on it? We pay them to conduct the government’s business, not to sit and do nothing. We don’t pay them to do the bidding of political parties or presidential candidates.

Follow the money. Who is the new darling of the billionaires? What will they do, and who will they sell out to keep those dollars rolling in? Vote for the candidates who are the most qualified and who will safeguard our democracy.

Samantha Sayers has been missing since she disappeared on August 1, 2018, after a day of solo hiking at Vesper Peak near Seattle, Washington. Sam grew up in the Erie, Pennsylvania area where her parents Ron and Lisa still live. Her family is exploring all avenues of inquiry to find and bring her home. In the face of such an enormous challenge, they have chosen hope.

Please keep sending positive thoughts to Sam and her family. As promised, we will be displaying a yellow ribbon for Sam on the opening page of each issue of This Awful Awesome Life until she is home.

If you are a person of faith, please pray for her safe return to her family. Because we are an online publication, we can update this article with any news. We will also post information on our Facebook page, but only after it is verified. Thank you!

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