Lisa Metzgar
@lisametzgarauthor.bsky.social
Author of literary fiction who always flinches (and tears up) while taking hard, unflinching looks at all of our grief and beauty and hope. Also a blogger at https://substack.com/@lisametzgarauthor. Trying to stay out of all the echo chambers.
Just put up a new blog post about my new adventure with Grove Creative Collective! Come check it out at lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/new-beginn..., and let me know what you think!
#retreats #creativity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity #writing
#retreats #creativity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity #writing
June 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Just put up a new blog post about my new adventure with Grove Creative Collective! Come check it out at lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/new-beginn..., and let me know what you think!
#retreats #creativity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity #writing
#retreats #creativity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity #writing
I'm super excited to announce a new venture today! Come check us out at www.thegrovecreativecollective.com
#creativity #retreats
#creativity #retreats
June 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm super excited to announce a new venture today! Come check us out at www.thegrovecreativecollective.com
#creativity #retreats
#creativity #retreats
One of the most astonishing things about being in this kind of terrain is the way that history and time are exposed. These pictures are from Dinosaur National Monument, a place where you can see time layered in the rocks and on the surface of the rocks and the land.
June 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One of the most astonishing things about being in this kind of terrain is the way that history and time are exposed. These pictures are from Dinosaur National Monument, a place where you can see time layered in the rocks and on the surface of the rocks and the land.
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Velvet-purple Coronet, one of my favorite hummers at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
May 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Velvet-purple Coronet, one of my favorite hummers at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
#birds #hummingbirds #nature
I just published a new blog post over on Substack and would love to have you stop by for a read!
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/fear-a-sho...
#blog #womensrights
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/fear-a-sho...
#blog #womensrights
May 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I just published a new blog post over on Substack and would love to have you stop by for a read!
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/fear-a-sho...
#blog #womensrights
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/fear-a-sho...
#blog #womensrights
Word of the Week: Malagrugrous
What a shame that the Oxford English Dictionary lists this word as obsolete! Should we band together and bring it back? Because, who doesn't need another word that means 'dismal' and 'gloomy?'
#wordoftheday
What a shame that the Oxford English Dictionary lists this word as obsolete! Should we band together and bring it back? Because, who doesn't need another word that means 'dismal' and 'gloomy?'
#wordoftheday
May 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Word of the Week: Malagrugrous
What a shame that the Oxford English Dictionary lists this word as obsolete! Should we band together and bring it back? Because, who doesn't need another word that means 'dismal' and 'gloomy?'
#wordoftheday
What a shame that the Oxford English Dictionary lists this word as obsolete! Should we band together and bring it back? Because, who doesn't need another word that means 'dismal' and 'gloomy?'
#wordoftheday
San Timoteo Canyon from my most recent trip. Beautiful sky/clouds on both days I was there. The pictures are beautiful, but the place is also a strange mix of native and invasive plants, agriculture, industry, and even (because why not) an ancient rusted out truck sunk halfway into the earth.
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
San Timoteo Canyon from my most recent trip. Beautiful sky/clouds on both days I was there. The pictures are beautiful, but the place is also a strange mix of native and invasive plants, agriculture, industry, and even (because why not) an ancient rusted out truck sunk halfway into the earth.
I've taken two trips over the last month through deserts in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. What astonishing landscapes. I took this pic from the Spotted Wolf Canyon View Area on I-70 in Utah. If you ever pass through this area, stop at ALL the view areas. It is both beautiful and stark.
April 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I've taken two trips over the last month through deserts in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. What astonishing landscapes. I took this pic from the Spotted Wolf Canyon View Area on I-70 in Utah. If you ever pass through this area, stop at ALL the view areas. It is both beautiful and stark.
I just published a new blog post over on Substack and would love to have you stop by for a read.
open.substack.com/pub/lisametz...
#resistance
open.substack.com/pub/lisametz...
#resistance
March 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I just published a new blog post over on Substack and would love to have you stop by for a read.
open.substack.com/pub/lisametz...
#resistance
open.substack.com/pub/lisametz...
#resistance
Does it say something about my psychology that I never remember to type the closing parenthesis? Should I just end every piece with a bunch of spare end parentheses so readers can insert as needed. Like this:
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Is anyone else parenthetically impaired?
#writingcommunity
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Is anyone else parenthetically impaired?
#writingcommunity
March 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Does it say something about my psychology that I never remember to type the closing parenthesis? Should I just end every piece with a bunch of spare end parentheses so readers can insert as needed. Like this:
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Is anyone else parenthetically impaired?
#writingcommunity
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Is anyone else parenthetically impaired?
#writingcommunity
Another in my occasional Word of the Week series (which is only nominally weekly… )
This is a worthwhile word to have in your back pocket. Also, it’s fun to say at cocktail parties!
“Kakistocracy: government by the worst people” (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/k...)
This is a worthwhile word to have in your back pocket. Also, it’s fun to say at cocktail parties!
“Kakistocracy: government by the worst people” (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/k...)
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Another in my occasional Word of the Week series (which is only nominally weekly… )
This is a worthwhile word to have in your back pocket. Also, it’s fun to say at cocktail parties!
“Kakistocracy: government by the worst people” (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/k...)
This is a worthwhile word to have in your back pocket. Also, it’s fun to say at cocktail parties!
“Kakistocracy: government by the worst people” (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/k...)
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BREAKING: last week a department-wide email went out warning everyone in the DOD that “Russian professional hacking groups are ... targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.”
Trump Officials Ignored Major Pentagon Warning in War Plans Group Chat
The Pentagon sent out a clear warning one week before that group chat disaster.
newrepublic.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BREAKING: last week a department-wide email went out warning everyone in the DOD that “Russian professional hacking groups are ... targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.”
This is a word-loving reminder that, tonight, North America and part of South America will bask in the blood-red glow of a lunar eclipse. See svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5473 (courtesy of Nasa, which recently lost its chief scientist to the ongoing purge). 1/2
March 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is a word-loving reminder that, tonight, North America and part of South America will bask in the blood-red glow of a lunar eclipse. See svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5473 (courtesy of Nasa, which recently lost its chief scientist to the ongoing purge). 1/2
Word of the week:
Prevaricate: "To deviate from the truth" (Merriam Webster, <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevaricate> )
Sincerity matters. Enough said.
Prevaricate: "To deviate from the truth" (Merriam Webster, <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevaricate> )
Sincerity matters. Enough said.
March 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Word of the week:
Prevaricate: "To deviate from the truth" (Merriam Webster, <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevaricate> )
Sincerity matters. Enough said.
Prevaricate: "To deviate from the truth" (Merriam Webster, <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevaricate> )
Sincerity matters. Enough said.
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WE GOT THIS!
Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.
Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WE GOT THIS!
Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.
Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.
I just published a new blog post over on Substack. I would love to have you stop by for a read!
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/navigating....
#blog #writinglife #writing
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/navigating....
#blog #writinglife #writing
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I just published a new blog post over on Substack. I would love to have you stop by for a read!
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/navigating....
#blog #writinglife #writing
lisametzgarauthor.substack.com/p/navigating....
#blog #writinglife #writing
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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
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📚 An Ottoman Document Showing that Isa Efendi, a Book Enthusiast, Mortgaged His House in Exchange for Books he Purchased from a Woman Named Âlem Hâtun, 17th Century #BookStore #BookLover #Library
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
📚 An Ottoman Document Showing that Isa Efendi, a Book Enthusiast, Mortgaged His House in Exchange for Books he Purchased from a Woman Named Âlem Hâtun, 17th Century #BookStore #BookLover #Library
The word "resist" comes from a Latin root that means to cause to stand "sistere" and the prefix "re" which implies repetition.
To resist, then, is to stand (to take a position of personal power) for--or against--something. 1/3 ⬇️
To resist, then, is to stand (to take a position of personal power) for--or against--something. 1/3 ⬇️
January 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The word "resist" comes from a Latin root that means to cause to stand "sistere" and the prefix "re" which implies repetition.
To resist, then, is to stand (to take a position of personal power) for--or against--something. 1/3 ⬇️
To resist, then, is to stand (to take a position of personal power) for--or against--something. 1/3 ⬇️
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Yesterday, a free and fair (but, for many of us, heartbreaking) election was certified under the leadership of the party that lost the election. There was neither bombast nor tantrums. No one stormed the Capitol. Our current elected officials did their jobs as defined by the Constitution. 1/2 ⬇️
January 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Yesterday, a free and fair (but, for many of us, heartbreaking) election was certified under the leadership of the party that lost the election. There was neither bombast nor tantrums. No one stormed the Capitol. Our current elected officials did their jobs as defined by the Constitution. 1/2 ⬇️
I've never been much for New Year's Eve resolutions. That said, I do write goals for myself every year, but I've come to realize that my goals are fluid, often aspirational in their breadth and (sometimes) self-contradiction. 1/3 ⬇️
January 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I've never been much for New Year's Eve resolutions. That said, I do write goals for myself every year, but I've come to realize that my goals are fluid, often aspirational in their breadth and (sometimes) self-contradiction. 1/3 ⬇️
Skiing in the trees is about learning that the best way to navigate tight spaces is to move into them with speed and confidence, and to always reach downhill toward the next hazard. I’m working to practice this with my writing as well.
December 29, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Skiing in the trees is about learning that the best way to navigate tight spaces is to move into them with speed and confidence, and to always reach downhill toward the next hazard. I’m working to practice this with my writing as well.