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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!

Ancient Spring Flowers by Orlando Bartro

Magnolia trees are ancient.  They were seen by dinosaurs.

The magnolia tree certainly looks distinct from other trees. There is something primitive about its form. Its branches interlace more wildly, contorting to reach every available patch of sunlight. 

It is instructive to gaze for hours at its blooms. 

They are symmetrical, but not perfectly so; balance without symmetry is characteristic of complex beauty.

* Orlando Bartro is the author of Toward Two Words, a comical & surreal novel about a man who finds yet another woman he never knew, usually available at Amazon for $4.91.

 https://www.amazon.com/Toward-Two-Words-Orlando-Bartro/dp/0998007501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462224367&sr=8-1&keywords=Toward+Two+Words

What is Romantic? by Fran Joyce

Happy Father's Day by Fran Joyce