Posts by Lisa Sinicki
You Know It’s The Last Day of Vacation When…
It happens every time I go on vacation. After six days of internal wrangling (“No Worrier, it’s not time to check email again.” “No, Driver we don’t need to go to the gym today.”) everything starts to settle down. Unfortunately that usually means that it’s time to go home. I used to have a boss, Bill…
Read MoreChronic Overthinker’s Demons 2.0
As you can see from this image, I’ve given my Demons an upgrade. Yes, they now have bodies and they’re no longer all the same height. Each now has sort of his or her own way of moving and appears in side and rear view–rather than always facing forward. Demons 2.0. This is what I…
Read MoreBald Headed Woman–The Musical
I mention this “performance” in the story I’m working on. Yes, I actually stood up in front of 100 people and sang. Wearing a bald cap. Here are the words (with apologies to the BeeGees and love to Barbie M.). I still remember all of the words, so I’m sharing. Bald Headed Woman Sung to…
Read MoreWhat Goes Through My Mind When I Get A Facebook Friend Request from an Old Classmate
This is a single-panel comic.
Read MoreHair envy circa 1979
Who didn’t want to have soft feathered hair like Valerie Bertinell? (This is a single-panel comic.)
Read MoreMy Demon Family Tree
Every one of my Demons has a very important purpose. They are what makes me successful and they are also at the root of most of my angst. The trick is to learn not to react to what they tell me until I’ve thought through whether they are giving me good advice or getting me…
Read MoreThank You to Elizabeth Gilbert for the Big Idea
Creating something new is often a process of connecting the dots. You start with something you see or hear, which reminds you of something else, which makes you remember a third thing you stored in your brain ages ago and—voila—an idea is born. The inspiration for my demons was a passage in Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.…
Read MoreMy Most Embarrassing Moment
The first story I’m writing is about the time when I hid under a teacher’s bookcase one morning before high school. Yes. It was an incredibly stupid and embarrassing thing to do. So stupid and embarrassing that I still think about it now. In a sense, I carried the bookcase with me for the next…
Read MoreSo What’s Up With The Demons?
I’m very excited–I’m writing stories via a combo of cartoons and prose. And I’ve decided to be brave and “Create out loud,” as Sara Bray would say, by posting my stories directly to the web. Graphic memoir is the best descriptor for what I’m doing. The stars of my stories are my survival instincts–or Internal Demons,…
Read MoreThey’re Almost Here
These are the stars of my new stories. Can’t wait to introduce you to them!
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