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Taking Gladwell's recipe for success and applying to the modern age of social media and instant fame. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

An attempt to learn how to decorate a cake based on a You Tube video. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The second in a series of a week devoted to learning a new skill each day, based on a YouTube video. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

How YouTube can put purpose into an unstructured week. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The human chin is the defining anatomical feature of modern humans Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The defining identity of a loud whistle. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The intracacies of toothpicks, airline food, fake chicken, fast food signage and sell by dates. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Ruminations on entering the eighth decade of life. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The marketing hype behind luxury sheets, triple washed lettuce, flushable wet wipes. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Darwin and I explore the mysteries of the pellet feces. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

It's time to start celebrating fruit flies as evolution's great gift to human physiology. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Sexual escapades every 17 years during a cicada summer Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The last item on my punch list. Get rid of the piano. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

My chromosomes and what they mean to me. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Mosquitos as a source of curiosity and entertainment on a long drive Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

When captured, my blue-winged warbler loses its wildness. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

A young girl dissects a cow’s eyeball.  What does that say about her future? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

How can we enjoy something that we are no good at? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Could the hair in my food be intentional? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

From stockings to pantyhose to knee highs, a fashion review. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Ten years ago I wrote a crime fiction novel featuring my detective Liza Blue.  How does her wit and wisdom compare to the icons in the genre – Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Kinsey Millhone? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

“In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.” Various … Continue reading →

In this season of pandemic-induced change, I offer some suggestion on how to revamp our major sports. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Short, pithy and to the point, these have been my guiding lights. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Pandemic humor.  What makes it funny? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Can I handle a weekly subscription to the New Yorker?  Maybe they could just send me every other one. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

How to find joy in your crepey skin. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Here is my sure-fire suggestion to set a scene or provoke a mood.  Add a fly.  And give him human characteristics. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The I Hate to Cookbook, published by Peg Bracken in 1960, saved my mother’s life. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Take a tour of the ubiquitous hexagon, from the humble honeycomb to the 16,000 mile wide hexagon on the surface of Saturn! Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

My uneasy relationship with guinea pigs in four chapters Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Who would have throught that my experience with typewriters would touch on gender politics, boyfriends and the tyranny of the typo! Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Strangers can validate you as a writer. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Who burns a piano.  Well why not? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

If you want a jolt of American ingenuity, go to Bed and Bath and Beyond and take in the splendor of all the kitchen gadgets. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

I felt the tightening grasp of the humble banana.  It had the potential to scuttle a promising friendship. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

A Lazy Boy is epitome of sloth, and now one commands my living room.  How can I get rid of it? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Second installment of vignettes of first childhood experiences of basic human emotions and attributes. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

With a long drive ahead of me ahead of me and nothing else to do, I decided to give religious radio a chance. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

My quest to harvest and repurpose my beautiful gallstone. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Ah, the mysteries of the brain.  Why do inextricably link the word Sol Hurok and impresario? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Song parody to “It’s a Gift to be Simple Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

A mother strikes a blow in solidarity for all the discontented snack moms out there! Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

A collection of childhood vignettes of “first ever” experiences where I learn that life is more complicated than I thought. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

I’s been over 50 years, but I am finally apologizing. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

The word “death” is taboo to advertisers.  Here is my solution. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Who burns a piano?  Is it even flammable?  Aren’t there wires and metal in there? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

What the hell is a superfood anyway.  Turns out it is nothing. Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

What was the physician thinking when he put this into the medical record? Share: Follow Liza Blue on:

Marketers view forced idleness, such as standing in  lines, as an opportunity for advertising.  The airport experience, where ads are slathered onto every flat surface, is the epitome of forced idleness advertising.  Now this advertising is poised to move into … Continue reading →

Who are these Gideons and why do they keep leaving their Bibles in hotel rooms? Share: Follow Liza Blue on: