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Lisa Borders
Lisa Borders is the author of the novels The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land. She’s lived in the greater Boston area for twenty years and grew up in New Jersey, so don’t cut her off in traffic. Her website: lisaborders.com.
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January 25, 2023Food from The Great British Bake Off or Song by The Cure?
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November 11, 2022It’s Me, Your Thin Friend and Oh My God, I Feel So Fat
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July 13, 2022“Your (Aging) Body Is a Wonderland”
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March 9, 2022Come Work at Our Nonprofit Where We Treat Employees Like Family—a Toxic and Dysfunctional Family
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June 2, 2021Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home
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April 21, 2021House Hunting in 2021 Bingo
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March 3, 2021It’s Me, Your Former Junior High School Bully, and I’m Sorry to Inform You That Karma Hasn’t Caught Up With Me Yet
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April 8, 2020Unfollow, Unfriend, or Block: A Pandemic Guide
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November 1, 2019I’m the Woman From A-ha’s “Take on Me” Video, and Life With a Comic Book Character Has Been No Fairy Tale
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April 3, 2019Responses to the Question, “Why Didn’t You Ever Have Kids?”
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November 15, 2017Signs That You Are a Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause
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November 29, 2023Your 2023 WebMD Wrapped
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November 22, 2023Post-Dinner Interview with a Twelve-Year-Old Who Sat at the Grown-Ups’ Table for the First Time on Thanksgiving
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December 4, 2023The National Lyrics or Things My Dad Says While Refusing to Check Google Maps?
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February 23, 2012Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers
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