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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm STILL having phone calls about the insurance nightmare from water damage we found in June. Patience is thin, admittedly. But I get off the phone today and husband, listening in the background, says "when you get angry, your Philly accent goes extreme." Go Birds?

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ignorance of distance mechanics for the sake of plot is one of those things that I have irrational rage over in shows and movies 🙅

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

How we feel about going back to work tomorrow

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

Chillsubs, if you're not familiar. Great for finding ones that take the genre specifically.

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

Glass half empty: wallow in self pity after catching a nasty virus to finish out the summer Glass half full: being glued to a sofa provides inspiration to catch up on submissions.

static.klipy.com

Benjammins: Rose-Tinted Glasses

ALT: Benjammins: Rose-Tinted Glasses

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

I mean, it does end with the Judge doing something unholy in the bathroom.

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

Can you imagine if any other profession did this? "Yes, we know the sign out front says we sell ice cream but we don't actually, and we're too lazy to change the sign. Don't really care that you spent an hour to drive here."

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

I have been getting this a bunch lately. "I love this but I'm not doing memoir right now." It's like listing a job posting you have no intention of filling.

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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 · 06/07/2026

Every time we get a thunderstorm now, I'm extremely tense because all I can think about is the possibility of water damage. I can't decide if this makes me paranoid or mature.

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Read the full intro note & the rest of the issue here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34 Thanks to @lisadellaporta.bsky.social for setting the scene!

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

That half green half purple floof is lovely

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm thrilled to have my short piece 'Colors' out in the new issue of @wildroofjournal.bsky.social today. Plus, I was honored to be asked to write the introductory note for the whole issue. Click through to read both here: wildroofjournal.com/issue-34/

wildroofjournal.com

Issue 34

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I'm hoping whoever does goes all-in and shows up drunk and syphilitic.

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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 · 10/06/2026

Mine was a local pharmacy chain that played mostly soft rock and crooners until, inexplicably in the middle of the tape, Prince's 'When Doves Cry.'

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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 · 24/05/2026

The weirdest decision to me was to make the abuse of Isabella some kind of consensual kink. Completely erases the horror of Heathcliff's behavior and the radical nature of Bronte's depiction of marital abuse in a time when it wasn't usually considered a thing. A big step backwards.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

And if you're going to ignore the conventions of the novel, whyyyy couldn't you add in to solve for one of its biggest mysteries, how Heathcliff makes his fortune and gets his glow up? Instead we got a lot of clawing at flesh walls and Charli xcx wailing.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Even if I ignore the massacre of the book plot and the watering down of the characters, and consider it lightly inspired by the novel, I have complaints. Why is Elordi licking her so much? Who decided that this is peak sexy?

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Catching up on my movie backlog through the rainy weekend. I have survived Wuthering Heights. Why was this made. No.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

For anyone else reading this, Staples has also discontinued their program and only take rechargeable batteries, with a fee for each battery. 😭

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Where can you recycle AA batteries anymore? Target and Whole Foods both cut their programs.

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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 · 11/05/2026

And yet that fee is what's keeping the respectable publications alive, in an age where we all expect everything to be free and have devalued collected writing to a dangerous extent. It's an odd line to walk as a writer. Prestige versus mass exposure.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's odd how the more successful you are in placing writing in respectable journals and mags, the fewer people will actually read it because it costs money to remove the paywall. $6 for a digital issue isn't a ton, but I'm a realist: people will click from here, see the price tag, close the window.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I have work out in New Letters' just released issue. 'Libras' is the most personal thing I've had published to date and I would love for you to read it. www.newletters.org/current-issu...

newletters.org

Current Issue – New Letters

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It supports other small businesses trying to survive right now, I get it. But man, you can see how unsustainable things are becoming. Clearly.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

And I can confirm, costs have gone UP. Not outlandishly or exploitatively, but definitely enough to notice.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

COVID wastewater positivity is currently at its lowest level since 2021, so I am blitz-scheduling all the repair people to work on the house repair backlog. Bathroom fan, replacing a window that was leaky after this winter, etc.

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

My problem with Ahsoka was that for a show titled with her name, it didn't have enough of her in it. It felt like a story more about the side characters than the lead.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Just realizing I have scheduled PT on May The 4th. Is it bad form to wear a wookie onesie to your appointment. Will all the sports jocks think I'm cool.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Making something teenagers are all required to read end with adult breast feeding is.... A choice

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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 · 29/04/2026

I feel this way every new year's eve when I see people trying to cram the current numbers into functional year-themed glasses. Once we crossed 2011 it just became awkward.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As someone who used to run community programs, fill it out. Give it kindly but straight. You'd be surprised how little fill out surveys and even critical feedback was appreciated.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's an important election year in Philly, which means I have canvassers knocking on my door at all hours. Officially at the stare-through-the-window-and-close-the-blinds-while-making-eye-contact part of the campaign. I know who I'm voting for. I have never missed a primary. Please go away.

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