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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 - August 2024 by Fran Joyce

Thanks for reading the July 2024 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. I hope you enjoy the Mango Salsa recipe in “The Twelve Months of Salsa.” Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to www.thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.



August is our Month of Travel in This Awful Awesome Life. We’ll take a look at some of your favorite vacation destinations and a few “off the beaten path” places you should consider.

Orlando Bartro and I will be back with interesting articles for you.

We’ll have another author birthday and our next salsa recipe because you need something tasty to snack on while you read the August issue.

We’re moving some of our regular features around to shake things up a bit and keep you on your toes.

I’ll have more streaming and reading recommendations. “What’s in a Word?” and “Dare to Believe,” will be back but we’ll be alternating some of our content. We’ll continue the monthly quizzes to exercise our brains, and we’ll continue reviewing books.

I’ll have a short story for you, and since my kitchen reno only has a few things left on the punch list, I hope to have photos for you.

I’m not sure if we’ll have a Q&A for you next month. I’m considering who would best fit our traveler theme. I know someone who has made a recent trip to Vietnam, and I might just be able to convince her to write an article or fill out a Q&A.

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

All my best,

Fran  

 

 

Answers to The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’s Birthday Quiz: 

1.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in Flatliners  with Kiefer Sutherland who is in Young Guns II with Alan Ruck (7/1)

 

2.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in A Few Good Men with Tom Cruise who is in Mission Impossible II with Billy Crudup who is in Watchman with Patrick Wilson (7/3) 

 

3.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in My Dog Skip with Luke Wilson  who is in Death at a Funeral with Kevin Hart (7/6)

 

4.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in Stir of Echoes with Liza Weil who appears as Paris Geller in Gilmore Girls with Milo Ventimiglia (7/8) 

 

5.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in The Woodsman with his wife Kyra Sedgwick who is in Singles with Paul Giamatti who is in Sideways with Sandra Oh (7/20)

 

6.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks who is in Big with Jon Lovitz who voices Quasimodo Wilson in Hotel Transylvania with Selena Gomez (7/22) who voices Mavis Dracula and other characters. 

 

7.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in Footloose with Sarah Jessica Parker who is in Failure to Launch with Matthew McConaughey who is in The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez (7/24)

 

8.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in My Dog Skip with Harry Connick, Jr. who is in Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock (7/26) 

 

9.    Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in National Lampoon’s Animal House with Donald Sutherland who is in Six Degrees of Separation with Will Smith who is in Independence Day with Vivica A. Fox (7/30)

 

10. Kevin Bacon (7/8) is in A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson who is in Blood and Wine with Stephen Dorff who is in Blade with Wesley Snipes (7/31)

 

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