REVIEW: Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder by Lisa Knopp | Hippocampus Magazine "Throughout the book, Lisa Knopp is braiding, raveling. She braids past with present and future." -- from our review of Raveling: Essays on Love, Loss and Wonder

A spectacular review of my new book! #CreativeNonfiction #LyricEssays #EssaysAboutAging #MariaLassing #NebraskaWriter
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My author's copies arrived yesterday! I'm so pleased with what the University of Nebraska Press has done with my essays. #UniversityNebraskaPress #CreativeNonfiction #NebraskaEssays #NebraskaWriter #LyricEssays

Here's the cover for my new book, forthcoming in March from the University of Nebraska Press. #LyricEssays #CreativeNonfiction #NebraskaWriter #StillLifeWithPeaches #IowaWriter #MariaLassnig #DisorderedEating #LanguageOfAging #Parables

Songs, in order of appearance:

Faithless

Changing, Numb

Sometime Around Midnight

Faithless again

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
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🎵Just give me one single second to breathe🎵

It's Oxygen Day and the delivery window keeps changing again & again & again

To Sometime Around Midnight

🎵I'll turn off the lights after they leave🎵

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
#LyricEssays

Songs, in order of appearance:

Faithless

Changing, Numb

Sometime Around Midnight

Faithless again

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
#LyricEssays

Part 2:

🎵Just give me one single second to breathe🎵

It's Oxygen Day and the delivery window keeps changing again & again & again

To Sometime Around Midnight

🎵I'll turn off the lights after they leave🎵

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
#LyricEssays

My today

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
#LyricEssays

Songs in order of (modified) lyric appearance:

Jenny

If I Could Only Sleep

The Lines of the Cars

Wasteland

All I Ever Wanted / Hollywood Park

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
#LyricEssays

🎵Did you sleep well last night, what are you doing today?🎵

If I could only sleep

The lines of the cars tripled my commute

My mother is lying still in her restful bed
Waiting to get an infection treated

Slaying my work hours into fields of dust, into dust

#TheAirborneToxicEvent
#LyricEssays ⬇️

Cover of Thank You For Staying With Me by Bailey Gaylin Moore, from the American Lives Series at University of Nebraska Press.

Finished this AMAZING essay collection by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social. Thank you, Bailey, for telling the truth about the rocky road from girlhood to womanhood. #essays #creativenonfiction #lyricessays #women #feminism 💙📚

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