by Lisa Marlin | Feb 12, 2023 | Published
(Published in The Denver Post on February 11, 2009) The day is here. Millions of new pennies are being released. Will unsuspecting bank customers and shoppers notice that the Lincoln Memorial has been replaced with a log cabin? Will they realize that this is the...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 28, 2018 | My Journey, Published
(This story was first published in The Dallas Morning News on July 27, 2003.) With a mother and sister who had breast cancer, the odds for the same thing happening in my lifetime have always been high; one medical study has shown my risk to be five times greater than...
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 4, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Published
(A version of this essay was published in The Huffington Post on June 6, 2016) What I know of boxing, you can put in a box. A teeny tiny box. But I knew enough as a young mother that when Muhammad Ali came to town, it was time to grab the baby and go meet the greatest...
by Lisa Marlin | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Published
My daughter Emmali [emma ⋅ lee] just finished her spring finals and is now officially a college senior! Seems like only yesterday I woke her so she’d be on time for the last day of high school. I think this letter that I wrote to her three years ago will...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 10, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Published
As I heard the shuffle of feet and mumbled chatter above me, I shook my head in disbelief. Was I really squatted under the gymnasium bleachers? Yes. And this is why. After dropping my kids off at school, I reluctantly continued my drive into work. I got about five...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Published, Writing
13 years, 3 months and 24 days ago my very first paid writing gig appeared on page 35 of section A in The Dallas Morning News. I felt lucky then and still do because I had no idea what I was doing when I faxed my essay to an editor’s number I found in the...
