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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 - April 2025

Thanks for reading the March 2025 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. I will be redoing the Plantains recipes in “The Twelve Months of Fruit,” and I hope to be able to show you how beautiful they are when they are at their correct level of ripeness.

Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to www.thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.

Our April issue celebrates writing.

I will write five different stories from a single writing prompt to illustrate different ways of looking at the same information.

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

Opening Day for Baseball is March 27, and we will be taking a look at the history of the sport.

Our April author birthday is William Shakespeare (April 23).

We’re moving some of our regular features around to shake things up a bit and keep you on your toes. I’m also hoping to expand our Artist Page to feature more talented creatives. Some people manage to elevate their work to the level of an artform, and we want to support their efforts.

I’ll have more streaming and reading recommendations. “What’s in a Word?” 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 another poem for you.

I hope to have some news about a new subscription-based Patreon account featuring short stories and chapter installments of my books as I write them. This will be separated from our online magazine which will always be free and available to everyone. I’m considering the Patreon option because traditional and Indy publishing have changed so drastically in recent years. Hoping I can also provide opportunities for book discussions and narrations of short stories. Be on the lookout after the June issue. I have some other pressing matters to attend to in the next few months.

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

All my best,

Fran     

Answers to the March 2025 “Six Defrees of Separation Between Talented Woman” Quiz:

  1. Rita Moreno and Blake Lively

Rita Moreno is in Fast X with Helen Mirren who is in Barbie with America Ferrara who is in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with Blake Lively.

  1. Octavia Spencer and Julia Roberts

Octavia Spencer is in The Help with Viola Davis who is in Doubt with Meryl Streep who is in August: Osage County with Julia Roberts.

  1. Lupita Nyong’o and Whitney Houston

Lupita Nyong’o is in Black Panther with Angela Bassett who is in Waiting to Exhale with Whitney Houston.

  1. Charlize Theron and Halle Berry

Charlize Theron is in North Country with Frances Mc Dormand who is in Almost Famous with Anna Paquin who is in X-Men with Halle Berry.

  1. Whoopi Goldberg and Kate Winslet

Whoopi Goldberg is in Ghost with Demi Moore who is in Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle with Cameron Diaz who is in The Holiday with Kate Winslet.

  1. Milly Bobby Brown and Anne Hathaway

Milly Bobby Brown is in Enola Holmes with Helena Bonham Carter who is in Big Fish with Marion Cotillard who is in The Dark Knight Rises with Anne Hathaway.

  1. Emma Thompson and Rita Wilson

Emma Thompson is in Saving Mr. Banks with Emily Blunt who is in The Devil Wears Prada with Meryl Streep who is in It’s Complicated with Rita Wilson.

  1. Kerry Washington and Mindy Kaling

 

Kerry Washington is in The Six Triple Eight with Oprah Winfrey who is in A Wrinkle in Time with Mindy Kaling.

  1. Lily Gladstone and Scarlett Johansson

Lily Gladstone is in Killers of the Flower Moon with Tantoo Cardinal who is in Wind River with Elizabeth Olsen who is in Avengers: Infinity War with Scarlett Johansson.

  1. Emma Stone and Gal Gadot

Emma Stone is in The Amazing Spider-Man with Sally Field who is in Forrest Gump with Robin Wright who is in Wonder Woman with Gal Gadot

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