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05/15/2026

Journaling group at the library, one of my favorites.

05/15/2026

05/14/2026

A Thematic Journaling Workshop for Gay Men 60+June 20

DETAILS AT THE LINK

https://yourwritepath.net/new-workshop-schedules-a-thematic-journaling-workshop-for-gay-men-60/

Here’s something people don’t often mention about getting older: the more life we’ve lived, the more interesting we become.

The places we’ve lived, the people we’ve loved, the versions of yourselves we’ve tried on and kept or discarded. It’s all there in the tapestry of our lives.

This journaling workshop is a place for rediscovery through journaling. No experience required, no literary ambitions necessary. Just a willingness to follow some simple good prompt, and see what comes out when we explore ourselves.

Led by Mark McNease, certified Guided Autobiography Instructor and author of fifteen novels, who believes everyone in the room has a story worth writing.

When: Saturday, June 20 Via Zoom (link will be provided)
Limit: 8 participants for each session
Morning: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm eastern
Afternoon: 4:00 pm – 6:0o pm eastern

05/13/2026

Still working at 65? Here's how to handle Medicare.

By Jim Miller

Dear Savvy Senior,

My wife and I are approaching 65, but I’m still working and have good health coverage through my employer. Do we need to enroll in Medicare at this point?

–Almost 65

Dear Almost,

If you or your spouse is still working past age 65 and have health insurance through your job, you may be able to delay enrolling in Medicare without a late enrollment penalty. However, the rules depend largely on the size of your employer.

05/13/2026

Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Special Edition: Short Story 'Jawbone' from 5 of a Kind

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Today in this special feature of the Fearsome Fiction Podcast we’re offering another short story from Mark McNease’s collection, ‘Five of a Kind.’

Jawbone tells the story of young Richard who was eighteen years old when a head-on collision on a snowy Indiana road took the lower half of his face. He survived — and that, in many ways, was the cruelest part.

We Richard Krump across the decades after his accident: the surgeries that promised normalcy and delivered nothing, the friends who never showed up to his homecoming party, the little girl in a drugstore who gave him his name, and the slow, steady retreat of everyone he ever loved — until only his books, his silence, and finally his paintings remained.

A haunting, deeply human story about disfigurement, isolation, and the particular cruelty of surviving intact on the inside while the world refuses to see past the outside. Jawbone begins where a young man's life as he knew it ends.

05/05/2026

True Crime Tuesdays – A Fearsome Fiction Feature: The Black Dahlia

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Welcome to True Crime Tuesdays. I’ll be sharing a true crime story every Tuesday on Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast. Narration is provided by my own Wondervox. Fasten your headphones for one of the most famous unsolved murders in the annals of American crime – or is it American madness?

They found her on the morning of January 15th, 1947.

A woman walking with her daughter through a vacant lot in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. She thought at first that what she was seeing was a discarded department store mannequin. A broken one, in two pieces.

It wasn’t a mannequin.

04/30/2026

I’ll be sharing one story at a time in audio version from my collection ‘5 of a Kind: Short Fiction.’

“The Gospel According to God”, narrated by my own Wondervox, is the first story in the collection. Spanning human history from primordial silence to a chance encounter on a Central Park bench, the story traces what happens when people mistake the infinite for a brick and the boundless for a rulebook — including Eric, a pre-literate mystic who discovers the divine lives inside every person and is killed for saying so.

Threading through the ancient scenes is Melissa, a young theater major from Michigan who arrives in New York City chasing a dream and finds herself ambushed by wonder. Riding subways and navigating the beautiful chaos of the city, she begins to sense something watching back — curious and unhurried.

“The Gospel According to God” by Mark McNease, narrated by Wondervox, is a short story from the collection ‘5 of a Kind: Short Fiction.’ Spanning human history from primordial silence to a chance enco

04/27/2026

How cool is this! I'm so excited. And I'll be doing three workshops at Read Mill Books in Clinton, NJ. Self-publishing, fiction writing essentials, and thematic journaling. This is for Sunday, June 28.

04/22/2026

This week's LGBT Senior Health Beat: A Bicycle Built for You

Once upon a time we had two bikes in the garage at our New Jersey house we came to on weekends. Since moving here full time eight years ago, we've dropped it to a single bike that is rusting in a shed. After promising myself for several years that I'd get a new bike

04/19/2026

LGBT Senior’s On the Map: An Ultimate Road Trip – Wilmington, Baltimore, and Home (Part II)

https://lgbtsr.online/lgbt-seniors-on-the-map-an-ultimate-road-trip-wilmington-baltimore-and-home-part-ii/

After a wonderful time in Savannah we headed to Wilmington. As always, a ‘6 1.2’ drive turned out to be 8 hours. Looking at the distance and time required to get somewhere on a GPS map only applies to the hours you spend behind the wheel. There are bathroom breaks, gas breaks, and food breaks that all have to be added in. For that reason we won’t do a road trip again without adding a couple more days so that we don’t spend more than 4 hours driving. Live and learn.

04/17/2026

Road trip Part I: Wi******er, Roanoke, and Savannah.

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By Mark McNease The backstory on this is a little long, so I'll just say the genesis of the trip was to meet up with two other couples in Savannah, John and Robert, and Jean and Cindy. I don't like flying unless I have to, and doing it for a three-night stay wasn't appealing. I