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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!

"What is a Women?" a Poem by Fran Joyce

She is fire molding diamonds from the pressures within.

The ice to cool the fevered brow,

And the heat to set it off again.

 

When fools preen like peacocks vying for her attention

She maintains her composure somehow.

Graciously absolving them of their sin.

 

She is the inspiration for the artist’s brush and the poet’s pen.

Life’s ever-present dao

Showing us the way to begin.

"The Salmon of Knowledge" A Retelling of the Irish Folktale by Fran Joyce

How We Learn to Be Brave by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde - A Review by Fran Joyce