Author Archives: Lisa Beach

Elizabeth Gilbert: My Creative Muse

I’m thrilled to be featured today in Creative Life, a website where artists can talk about (and share) their experiences in leading a creative life. My article titled “My Creative Muse Is from…New Jersey?” explores some of the motivation behind why I decided to launch Tweenior Moments and how Elizabeth Gilbert (author of the newly released Big Magic: Creative Living… Read more »

The ADD of Motherhood

cleats that sparked my ADD-like chain of events

“I’ll be back out in a minute,” I said to my husband Kevin as we were sitting on the back porch reading the Sunday paper. “I need to go throw a load of laundry into the washer.” On my way upstairs to gather a load of white clothes, I notice my son’s soccer cleats on the steps, unknowingly sparking an… Read more »

BOOM. I’ve Got a Full-Blown Case of Middle Age

full-blown case of middle age

From hair loss to heel spurs, middle age can slowly ravage your body from head to toe. It all starts innocently enough, with a suspicious mole here and a high-cholesterol count there, here a pound, there a pound, everywhere a pound, pound. At first, I barely even noticed the small, sporadic changes that began to crop up – the stray… Read more »

The Memory Foam Incident

bed

A few months ago, my husband and I kept waking up with achy backs and sore hips. It wasn’t us being middle aged, of course. It was our senior citizen mattress – about 10 years old at that point. Since we were struggling to get a decent night’s sleep, we decided to invest in a memory foam topper to extend the life of the mattress a bit longer. Fools. Here’s how it all went down:

6 Lessons We Learned From Growing Up in the ‘80s

yearbooks

At a recent salon appointment, my stylist commented that she would never want to go back and relive her high school years. That’s a shame, because high school rocked – at least for the Class of ‘82 at my alma mater, anyway. Yes, even way back in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, we still had to deal with all the… Read more »