by Lisa Marlin | Jan 2, 2024 | Blog, Middle Age, RV, Travel
On our way to the RV show at the Colorado Convention Center on April 1, my partner and I planned how we were going to play the biggest April Fool joke ever on our five adult kids. They knew that we’d been toying with the idea of getting an RV since the pandemic,...
by Lisa Marlin | Dec 21, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Parenting
Sitting amidst shreds of Christmas wrapping paper in my parents’ bungalow in 2006, my curly blonde-headed five-year-old daughter looked up at me and asked if there were any more presents. Not that she was disappointed with the dolls and accessories she had received,...
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 | Sep 29, 2019 | Blog, My Journey, Running
October 20, 2018 – Twelve women on my mother’s side of the family have had breast cancer. Twelve of us. When a distant cousin asked if it would be okay to include my name on a T-shirt for a fundraiser, I did not hesitate in telling her yes. She would be participating...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog, Parenting
Don’t look it up just yet. The meaning of malapropist is in my story. My youngest will have to live with the words the rest of her life. And the fact that the rest of us chuckle nearly every time we pull up to an intersection where pedestrians are in the crosswalk....