Lisa notes

Mop the floors or read a book? Start the laundry or take a walk? Dust the furniture or eat a cookie? I’d rather eat the cookie. But I also thrive…

I ask you to do something for me. You’d like to do it. But you don’t do it. Not because you don’t want to, but because you can’t.  I wouldn’t…

As much as I loved her first memoir Becoming, I also love this second one by former First Lady Michelle Obama. In The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,…

I am sitting across from an acquaintance at the restaurant. We’ve almost made it through lunch. But now she is dipping into dangerous conversational territory. I can’t decide what to…

“We need words to begin to heal betrayals, inequalities, and ruptured connections.”– Harriet Lerner Is there an author you’d like to talk with over dinner? Because I’ve experienced how tricky…