Author: Lisa

Lisa A. Listwa is a self-employed writer with experience in education, publishing, and the martial arts. Believing there was more to life than punching someone else’s time clock and inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, she traded her life as a high school educator for a life as a writer and hasn’t looked back. She is mother to one glorious handful of a daughter, wife to the nicest guy on the planet, and reluctant but devoted owner of three Rotten Cats. You can find her adventures and thoughts on living life deliberately here on the blog.

Five Friday Favorites – Random Monday Edition

I started this list last Wednesday thinking I would be all set to publish on Friday. Didn’t happen. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have five things on the list. Maybe it’s because we were busy doing a hundred other things. Who knows? At any rate, better late than never, here are this last week’s favorites – completely…

By Lisa January 28, 2013 Off

Focus on Nothing

I have accomplished a whole lot of nothing over the last week. My To-Do list (that wretched thing) has just as many items on it as it did two weeks ago. It’s not for lack of effort or lack of finishing the tasks set forth there…it’s that as each item is crossed off, another (or…

By Lisa January 14, 2013 Off

About That Detention…

So, when Kat visited and commented on the Detention post, she suggested that as an adult, it would be wise to avoid the kissing hallway. Good advice. Well, here’s the funny part about that… It occurs to me that the reason the whole PDA detention/math teacher thing haunts me is that the Fab Hub and…

By Lisa January 13, 2013 Off

Early to Bed…

Hi, Readers. Our Mom decided to go to bed early tonight. We thought we would help her out by putting up a post for her and showing her just exactly how to get a good night’s sleep. We are very helpful Rotten Cats. The two very handsome boys in the photo are Cat One and Cat…

By Lisa January 10, 2013 Off

Detention: Not Exactly The Breakfast Club

I’m pretty sure I only served one or two detentions in school. I was a “good kid.” I was a teacher’s kid, for crying out loud. There was really no option where in-school conduct was concerned – if you did something bad and your parent was a teacher, they knew all about it before your butt…

By Lisa January 10, 2013 Off

My One Word

So, my Word… I’ve been thinking about it for quite a few days now. Thinking… praying… discerning… deciding if this is the right word. It is. It was from the second I decided on it, which was almost right away. But because I am Me and I tend to get in my own way fairly…

By Lisa January 9, 2013 Off

Five Friday Favorites – Never Say Never Edition

Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the first edition of Five Friday Favorites for 2013. This week I am featuring my awesome Fab Hub. There are many reasons to love him, but one of my favorites is his complete and devoted enthusiasm for my cooking. In honor of his appreciation of just about everything that comes…

By Lisa January 4, 2013 Off