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 27, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
My first grandchild is due any day now and I’ve got two words of advice for his parents: Hold on. 1) Hold on to your lives before baby — to the memories of that time you met each other and started dating and broke up and then dated again until it just...
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 | May 7, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
“Do you ever regret having kids?” my daughter asks as she continues scrolling through Instagram posts on her phone. She’s sitting in the passenger seat as I drive to pick up a teammate to take them to practice. She has asked me this question countless times and...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
It’s my fault that he left in a U-Haul in the middle of the night. He might try to tell you differently, but don’t believe him. A mother just knows. Especially a mom who once did the same thing. How could I have known a decision I made when I was 19 would have such an...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Writing
Charles Dickens made them famous, Erma Bombeck made them funny, and I made them a summary of my experience at the 2016 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in Dayton, Ohio, March 31-April 2. I’m referring to six simple words Dickens wrote in 1859 with quill in hand to begin...
