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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How we feel about going back to work tomorrow

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Genuine question for book agents: why list a genre in your submission options if you have no intention of representing it?

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Right on time for August, Philly approaching full swamp mode today.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If @tacobellquarterly.org rejects my submission after eleven months, it'll still be the second most painful thing associated with the words 'Taco Bell' this year.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Before and after. The shrinking of greens hits harder when you grow them yourself.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Painting walls comes with three distinct phases: I don't know if I like this color. Oh man I actually hate this color. I have exhausted myself from painting, do not care anymore, and now will live with this color for the next ten years.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Tonight I met a goat named Teddy, roughly the size of a Great Dane. He peed on my foot but I love him anyway.

A brown goat tosses his head back center frame. A woman in a green volunteer best holds his leash. Onlookers gather in the background.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Building is at capacity and standing room only at the Upper Merion Township meeting about a proposal to build 5 data centers. Zoom streaming link is also at capacity - at 600 people.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Paint me like one of your French girls.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I can't decide if this is an odd or brilliant choice given the specialty, but the waiting room at the gynecologist has SVU on.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Enemies to lovers: in progress

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

They keep talking about needing to check for noxious gasses coming from the astronauts and every time I hear it I giggle because inside I am a 5th grader.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Surprise book store cats are the best book store cats.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I am 'had to explain Rathergood.com to a coworker today' years old.

The opera singer pavarotti stands in front of a field of elephants. He sings 'eeeeeeeeeee' as hearts fly out from his chest.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I read this in one sitting and can't stop thinking about it. Usually I have a hard time connecting with translated books - something feels awkward and distant. But this time that may have even improved the read.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My last acceptance of 2025 is live today on The Bookends Review: thebookendsreview.com/2025/12/26/c...

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When a pillow is unavailable, apparently a kindle will do.

A black cat sleeps on an ottoman with teal fabric. Her head rests on a kindle e reader, used like a pillow.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Met the superior Pittsburgh penguin last weekend

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It's always good to drive through the middle of Pennsylvania and get a reminder of why I live in Philadelphia

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I know it's ancient tech at this point, but I will never not be wowed by xrays. It's your bones! You can see INSIDE TO YOUR BONES. What a time to be alive.

An X-ray film of a left foot. The toe to the right of the pinky is broken in three places.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Watching the federal government send troops into fairly tame metros while living in a city with a reputation for its mayhem even when we’re happy is odd. Is there an order of importance to the deployments? Are we being judged against others for levels of…. Something?

A painted image of the French revolution. Men with bayonets in period appropriate clothing fight. Lady Liberty is center front. Her face has been replaced crudely with a cutout of the mascot Gritty's face.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Circa 2013: my first race and a big part of what sold me on NW Philly

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Me, eyeing all the houses near train lines that I have not been able to afford

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Unexpected score at Thunderbird Salvage's UArts estate sale today: a huge stack of lit journals back issues for $20. TBR is laughable at this point but we buy them all anyway 💃

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It's 90% soap opera and 10%% medicine that's neither educational or interesting, but full of fake blood. I hate everyone except this chimpanzee John Leguizamo insisted they treat like a patient with very little explanation.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

ER stress marathoning update: things have dramatically declined in quality but skyrocketed in weirdness

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

So much of his work is impeccable technical skill deployed to show us animals freaking out. I love it.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Never seen this Jamie Wyeth painting before today, but it speaks to me on a very deep level.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

When the order of the random posts is better than the individual posts themselves

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This has been the rainiest summer in recent memory and as much as my body is not about this humidity, my herb garden is loving it.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Every day I walk past my neighbor's lawn statue, and it's always made me feel uneasy though I haven't been able to say why. This week it hit me that the cherub's face is a dead ringer for Kuato from the 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The only time I enjoy being creeped on in the park

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today I learned that Google Maps has a feature to update you on traffic impact...from mass shootings. Like it's a routine enough thing that they built in standard messaging.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I have officially become that neighbor who has so many plants on the porch that I have to send specific photos when someone is coming to pick up a plant giveaway. 'Not this green clump, the OTHER green clump, next to the darker green clump '