A Most Unreliable Narrator

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #13 Law enforcement checking on motorists. “They were just taking photographs.”

October 27, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #12 Male walking down middle of the road

October 21, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

In the Year of our Lord of COVID: Issue #6 The Universal Want

October 18, 2020

Days in lockdown: 220Mental status: 90% stable because you cannot medicate all emotions I’m writing this on Sunday to be sent on Monday since I sent the...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #10/11 Caller’s ex-wife and daughter are trying to start issues

October 17, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #8/9 Caller Bit by a Parrot

September 30, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #7 Subject was showering. Disregard.

September 16, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

In the Year of our Lord of COVID Issue #5: Deep in These Woods

September 12, 2020

Days in quarantine: 185Brain status: Awake and possibly manic It’s was 5:52 AM when I started. This is all you need to know about my brain right now. Note:...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #6 Large cows in the road

September 8, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #5 Husky trying to eat caller’s rabbits

September 2, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

In the Year of our Lord of COVID: Issue #4 A Human's Guide to My Brain

August 29, 2020

Days in quarantine: 170Brain status: Manic Here we are again, mania my old friend. For the last week, I’ve been feeling pretty good! My mood tracker tells me...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #4 Unruly female causing a scene.

August 26, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

In the Year of our Lord of COVID: Issue #3 Lippy Kids

August 22, 2020

Days in quarantine: 164 I bought more concert tickets:You are reading that correctly: Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, and one ticket not shown, Cardiff. Wales,...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #3 Caller Said it Sounded Like a Person Screaming

August 21, 2020

Every week, Leelanau county's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

In the Year of our Lord of Covid: Issue #2 You Already Know This DIY Recipe

August 15, 2020

Days in quarantine: 157I skipped last Sunday, so sue me.I thought life was more or less okay recently. I was raging, sure, and picking fights with people...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #2 Someone cut and stole caller’s Donald Trump flag.

August 11, 2020

Every week, Leelanau County's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

Weekly Dispatch Blotter Highlights: Issue #1 Four mattresses have been dumped along the roadway.

August 4, 2020

Every week, Leelanau County's (where our cabin is located) weekly newspaper, Leelanau Enterprise, publishes the dispatch calls to 911. These are the...

In the Year of our Lord of Covid: Issue #1 Goats in the middle of the road. One has a bucket on its head.

July 29, 2020

Today marks our 138th day in lockdown.The current dumpster fire of 2020 continues to accelerate and my daily news intake is no longer of one of surprise....

In the Year of our Lord of Covid: Issue #0 Hi.

July 25, 2020

Hi.It's been 13 months since my last missive. I've been told people miss my writing and I miss the fawning so here we are. One of my Kate friends (HI KATE!)...

things i consume: Issue #2 July 2019

July 3, 2019

I did not miss June! I realized when I sent out the first issue, I had the wrong month so July it is! If you're a fan of irreverant, chatty, hilarious guests...

things i consume: Issue #1 May 2019

May 31, 2019

New feature sent on the first of the month; here are things I am consuming:Now that "Fixer Upper" is no longer on the air, Buzzfeed recounts the history of...

Issue #52: To Be or Not To Be Is Always My Eternal Fucking Question

May 8, 2019

I did not have to cut a bitch as I now have a job.I have a TinyLetter extolling the hows, why, and wherefores of said job but this is not why I'm here today...

Issue #51 This Is What It Feels Like When A Battery Is Drained Of Power

January 18, 2019

I have finally figured it out my malaise: I'm mentally and emotionally exhausted.I toyed with the idea for the last few years I must be depressed but I did...

Issue #50 Ultimate Beauty

January 12, 2019

I joined Overeaters Anonymous (OA) before Christmas. Only a few people know and I hesitate about talking about it, but just as being crazy is now becoming...

Issue #49 It's The End of the World As I Know It and I Suppose I Feel Okay Even Though Most Things Are A Dumpster Fire

December 30, 2018

I've been thinking a lot on the idea of a sense of self, my self, my goals, and desires not just for the new year but for always. My daily state of being is...

Issue #48 Birth + Life + Death

December 3, 2018

Dear Internet,A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks to the extent there is almost too much to process My brother-in-law (TEH’s brother) unexpectedly...

Issue #46 Heart Beats

September 21, 2018

I quit Facebook and Twitter earlier this week. I am like the thousands of other people who quit (mostly) social media on the reg. (I kept Instagram because...

Issue #45 Get Lucky

September 8, 2018

I said recently to Kate that my exuberance in the author Caitlin Moran (website, wiki, twitter, insta) and obsessing over her and her work, and by obsessing...

Issue #44 The Lisabury Tales

July 28, 2018

Are you sitting down?No, really. Are you sitting down?(I would also not have a drink near you.)I got a job.An honest to goodness job that while I will not be...

Issue #43 Am I not my body?

July 1, 2018

Roxane Gay is a culture critic, writer, and essayist who is also an all-around badass. I've known about Roxane for years now at least since her book Bad...

Issue #42 Paroxysm

June 24, 2018

My life is ruled with the iron fist of anxiety that even Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the strongest man in Iceland, cannot break its chains.I’m on the birth...

Issue #41 I Like You

June 13, 2018

Hello, my shiny friends!This past Tuesday was my birthday and I turned the ripe old age of 46. Remember when 46 seemed so old with ladies wearing twin sets,...

Issue #40 Biblyotheke In The House

May 31, 2018

Hello, my exuberant readers!I've been reading. A lot. By a lot I mean I finished 15 books in May of which seven were read the week we were in DC. My schedule...

Issue #39 Best Buds Oreos and Milk

May 20, 2018

Hey, my diamond filled imps!My "oh, I'm going to post every other week" took as a pause as TEH and I went to DC last week to binge on museums and gardens....

Issue #38 Breath of the Wild

May 2, 2018

Jesus, it's been a week.Let me not bury the lede! I am cancer free! I had my appointment on April 26 to find out the status of my surgery and the polyps were...

Issue #37 The Gratitudes 76 - 100

April 29, 2018

I am (still) hungover.I spent the weekend with one of my BFFs and we ended up at a strip club Saturday night with a few romantic interests (hers) while I...

Issue #36 Make Good Art

April 18, 2018

A couple of housekeeping things. The new project I mentioned last time, Effing Mindfulness: Punk Rock Mindfulness, Spirituality, and Balance, is now cross-...

Issue #35 The Gratitudes 51 - 75

April 15, 2018

Hello my crazy, shiny goblin friends!If you've been following me around the Internets this last week, you know I'm coming down from a week long manic...

Issue #34.75 The Poetry Site Moved

April 11, 2018

Hello my crazy, shiny goblin friends!Don't use Dreamhost as a web hosting company.If you do, I highly recommend you move your sites elsewhere. TEH and I are...

Issue #34.5 Surgical Mania

April 10, 2018

By now most of you who follow me on social media, and in this case primarily on Facebook, or I've talked to you in person, know I had my pre-surgery surgery...

Issue #54 The Gratitudes 26 - 50

April 9, 2018

The Gratitudes 1 - 25Gratitudes26. For the wind through the trees to allow me to allow the gods to talk to me27. For sticking to my guns for doing the right...

Issue #33 The Gratitudes 1 - 25

April 1, 2018

I was cleaning out my /lisa/Documents folder the other day and I found a folder called Practical Bliss. Practical Bliss was an idea I came up with a few...

Issue #32 Shake It Like You Own It

March 20, 2018

True to my word, on February 10, 2018 I started the "lifestyle change" TEH and I put together and I have stayed with it. Cue applause and give me my g-d gold...

Issue #31.5 Spotify playlist

February 10, 2018

In my rush to get the newsletter out, I forgot to add a link to the Spotify playlist. Lots of new music, enjoy!

Issue #31 Sneak vs Snuck

February 10, 2018

For months now, I loathe to say years because that is far too depressing, I've been on the peripheral of getting a job. Always a bride's maid, never a bride....

Interlude #1

January 22, 2018

In my last therapy session, my mother's attempted (twice) suicide was the topic du jour. I startled myself with this admission made within the first five...

Issue #30 A Year In A Life

January 6, 2018

A recent trend on social media is to name one (or two or three) things you're proud of for the year as a way to offset the hot garbage that is 2017. I've...

Issue #29 You're tearing me apart, Lisa!

December 3, 2017

I miss being manic.There, I've said it. The elephant in the room that lives in my head and has been braying inside my brain for the last few weeks.I don't...

Issue #28 A Reader's Favorite

November 10, 2017

Louisville is finally in a cold snap and I'm now kicking leaves when I walk the dog which gives me some joy. I try to not think that I've seen 45 Novembers...

Issue #27 romanticism is my jesus

October 26, 2017

TEH is subscribed here but reads at his own leisure. He's not sure why he's subscribed other I thought it was important for him to know what's going on in my...

Issue #26 Sunday, Funday

October 21, 2017

Last night I dreamt I went back to my last library job and begged for forgiveness and thus for my job. In my dream, I found myself wandering around, up and...