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...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 13, 2016 | Blog, Writing
Journal Entry, March 5 I tap the Like icon on the Facebook post announcing that the final round of the essay contest I entered last month has begun. My stomach lurches as I consider that mine could be one of the lucky handful still remaining that the judge will read...
by Lisa Marlin | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog, Parenting, Writing
It is an honor to pin this beautiful blue badge on my blog. It arrived attached to an email announcing that one of my essays now lives on the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop website. To celebrate, I took the subject of that essay to dinner. My youngest daughter...
by Lisa Marlin | Dec 31, 2015 | Blog, Writing
I like this day. I really do. Forget that I could not sleep very well last night because of it. I am waking up to it now, almost ready to grab it by its hands that circle around the clock in my kitchen. First, I grab my second cup of coffee. And then I head into my...
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 21, 2015 | Blog, Writing
June 19, 2015 5:00 pm the elephant house Edinburgh, Scotland We’re sitting in the café in the exact spot where it is claimed, 20 years earlier, J.K. Rowling began putting the ideas she had for a wizard school boy on paper. It is dinner time and the place is packed,...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog, Writing
Writing live from a Panera Bread in Aurora on the 31st day of March, it’s Lisa Marlin. This is my last chance to get a fourth post in before the stroke of midnight — a March challenge from two other creative sorts. That’s seven hours away, but...
