Sometimes I wonder if activism created compassion for the unjust while my sense of humor leaked out of my brain and then Nick recites quotes from West Wing or Isaiah dances on one foot and humor floods my house with no arc in sight i happily drown in it –bubbles coming out of my mouth– […]
Author: Lisa
What Vegans Eat: Avocado & Veggie Pulp Lettuce Wraps
I’m attempting to start a series on my blog, helping me do two things. 1) Document the creative and different foods I put together — forcing myself to rethink conventional food prep and cooking 2) Provide a tiny space on the internet that answers the annoying question that I get all the time, “What do […]
Writers’ Greed
On so many levels, this explains my intrepid spirit to go, do, be, feel, experience anything and everything. And simultaneously, the sardonic evil emotional twin that accompanies this. I would argue, however, that my writers’ greed has another contradicting face: the voracious need for community.
A Poem on Not Understanding: “God’s BiPolar”
God’s bipolar. weeping in our losses laughing a second later savoring our whispered prayers all the while maintaining a deep secret of identity shroud in possibility shouldering the accusations and disbeliefs we hurl at It. nodding shrugging dipping Its fingers in the ocean –holy schizophrenia– From a distance, yet next door It voyeurs wars and […]
The MisEducation of Penn State Students: The Wannabe Rioters and the Almost Whistleblower
The dark staining circle of sexual abuse and violence is a tricky thing. It’s impervious to circumstance, family, culture, age, geography, or status. It can happen anywhere, at any time. And yet, when it hits a mainstream culture – like college football – it suddenly becomes this complex “issue” that everyone needs to start educating […]
Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal: How Not to Walk Like Mike McQueary
Here’s the thing about sexual violence. Once you work in it, once you know how the system works, and once you have 1/10 of an idea just how dark, and terrible, and unjust it is — you can never go back to NOT knowing. You can never return to the land of, “Gosh, that’s terrible.” […]
Making Time Slow Down
We set our clocks back an hour, yes, but can we ever really go back in time? No. Of course not. Lately, I have been thinking how quickly our small children move on to the next thing. From mispronouncing a word to saying the word correctly. From laying on their backs at the highest level […]
Audre Lorde: On “Jugular Vein Psychology”
Doing research for a writing assignment and found myself in arms/pages of Audre Lorde’s, “Sister Outsider.” I wonder how some people survive without reading her brilliance. She is such loving brilliance. The distortion of relationship which says “I disagree with you, so must destroy you” leave us as Black people with basically uncreative victories, defeated […]
To Decolonize Oakland, Occupy Oakland from Cleveland
I’m sick with a virus and can’t do much of anything right now. Except send some love to all those out in Oakland. While I’m not sure how I feel about the Occupy movement as a whole, I do know many people who are reporting the police violence and brutality in Oakland and want to […]
10 Responses to Say to Your Child-free Friends
This article has been floating around quite a bit and since it’s on parenting and relationships, felt an overwhelming need to respond and clarify my position on the relationship and friendship changes when a person has a child. 1. Why did you decide to have a kid anyway if you’re so stressed out? You chose […]