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Lisa K. Friedman
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Lisa K. Friedman

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Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

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Lisa Kaplan Friedman is an award winning writer of essays, articles, novels and stories. Her humor essays appear in the New York Times, Huffington Post, and in magazines and online venues. A contributing editor in Health and Medicine, Lisa writes widely about dementia and other brain diseases - something she knows entirely too much about.

Lisa writes about art and culture for the Smithsonian Institution's Associates Magazine. She teaches, mentors and tutors student writers, and is a frequent guest lecturer around the country.

Awarded the prize for Best in Humor from the Erma Bombeck Center, Lisa also received First Prize for Writing at the DCJCC Literary Festival, and was nominated for Best Essayist by the American Society of Journalists an ...more

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“I, Lisa K Friedman, being of sound mind and broken foot, served him with a mock complaint: breach of the marriage contract.
New York Times, Modern Love”
― Lisa K. Friedman
tags: communication-skills, humor, lawyers, marriage-advice, mishaps, modern-love, travel
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“They wheeled my father up. "Hi Dad," I touched his hand, which was locked down under a thick restraining belt. His sweat pants were stained with food; the socks on his feet were twisted and wrong. "We'll meet you inside," I yelled. My father craned his neck and answered: "Two. Four. Seventeen.”
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tags: new-york-times-magazine
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“He friended me just after Thanksgiving, Week 13 of regular-season football this year.”
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“One night, he posed the question: Does your husband mind that you are chatting with me?”
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“During the last night, when the house echoed with dust and vacancy, I thought about my own house and my own children, and about my mother's grace in the midst of a heartbreaking process. Compassion ached in my chest; I would not sleep that night”
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