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Lisa Borders
Lisa Borders is the author of the novels The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land. Her third novel, Last Night at the Disco, will be published in 2025. Read more of her humor and other writing at lisaborders.com.
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January 15, 2025Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
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November 13, 2024Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences
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June 5, 2024We Are the Spiders of This House
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February 13, 2024The 25th Annual Conference of Women Mentioned in Rock Lyrics
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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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January 15, 2025A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
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January 8, 2025Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?
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January 9, 2025I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
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January 15, 2025Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
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